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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week

17 June 2017

9:00 AM

17 June 2017

9:00 AM

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Theresa May, the Prime Minister, spent the week confronting the consequences of the general election that she had called to bring ‘stability and certainty for the future’. It had instead surprisingly left the Conservatives with no overall majority. They won 318 seats (a loss of 13) and Labour 262 (a gain of 30).

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