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On the UK general election

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement in Downing Street next to her husband Philip after traveling to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen's permission to form a minority government

Thomas Wright, director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy, weighs in on the UK general election results and assesses the likely next steps for the Conservative and Labour parties.

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