Reinforced by an unexpected outcome, the Tory leader visited in the early afternoon at the Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace to collect his formal consent to form the next government.
“I will now form a majority Conservative government,” he announced on the first day of his second term. In 2010, the Tories had needed the Liberal Democrats to govern.
“A government majority”
The final results after counting of 650 constituencies allocate 331 deputies to the Conservatives (+ 24) to Labour 232 (-26), 56 to the SNP (50), 8 to Liberal Democrats (-49), the Ukip 1 (-1).
The Labour was rolled in Scotland, where the separatist SNP won 56 of the 59 seats at stake in their autonomous region, hitherto regarded as an impregnable Labour stronghold.
Many analysts had predicted a “bloodbath” policy, and they were right on this point.
“political bloodbath”
Nigel Farage, the leader of the anti-European party Ukip, beaten South Thanet, was the first to resign, putting into effect its promise to “draw the curtain” on failure. His departure has a very severe blow to his party, though credited with a flattering score of nearly 13% in voice. The one-man band of Ukip has however not ruled out a “come back”.
Soon after, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, 48, threw in the towel at the end of one night “devastating”, in his own words.
Ed Miliband, 45, the head of Labor, has followed the same path, by endorsing “full responsibility for the defeat.”
“nationalist Tsunami” on Scotland
The other big losers are polling polling agencies that have continued to predict an ultra close result, referring back to back both sides Traditional struck decline in a landscape characterized by the multiparty system.
The Labour is first and foremost victim of the nationalist tsunami that swept Scotland, the SNP almost tenfold its representation in the House of municipalities. “The Scottish lion roared that night”, welcomed its former leader, Alex Salmond.
The triumph of the SNP is symbolized by the election of Mhairi Black, a 20 year old student who becomes the Westminster youngest MP since 1667, at the expense of incumbent and part of Labour Douglas Alexander.
The temptation of “Brexit”
Ed Balls, the right arm of Miliband, Jim Murphy, Labour’s boss in Scotland, and Vince Cable, former Minister of Trade lib-dem, are among the other victims of an assassin ballot brand.
David Cameron was criticized for its lack of carry-in commitment. Barely re-elected, he reiterated his main promise: the organization by 2017 a referendum on maintaining or no country in the European Union. A prospect that worries her European partners because of the possibility of “Brexit”, an acronym for an exit of the club of 28.
The news of the victory of the conservatives has led to a jump the British pound against the dollar and the euro on Friday on the Asian markets.
The London Stock Exchange was also a changing higher Friday despite European uncertainties potentially damaging to business.
The London Stock Exchange in tune
Moreover, a possible exit from the EU could have a backlash profound impact on the maintenance of Scotland, largely pro-European, in the United Kingdom.
All day Thursday, SNPs militants out of the polling booth in Glasgow or Edinburgh made no secret of their desire “revenge.” Indeed they aspire to hold a new referendum on independence after a first missed appointment in September.
This is a significant threat, although “David Cameron has significantly increased its stature, “said Patrick Dunleavy, an expert at the London School of Economics (LSE).
The youngest British prime minister in two centuries behaved much better than expected at the polls, but might struggle “to do anything radical,” he added.
New ambitious
Cameron will indeed contain the discontent of the fringe Eurosceptic his party and hold off the contenders to succeed him when he announced during the campaign he would not run for third term.
One of them, the ebullient Mayor of London Boris Johnson was elected MP in Uxbridge, an essential step in order to claim the party leadership.
For now, he belonged to Labour and the Liberal Democrats to roll up their sleeves to tackle the painful reconstruction site.
(With AFP)
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