UK ‘wakes up to hung Parliament’

May 7, 2010 English 1st Paragraph

With more than 500 general election results in out of 650, the BBC is predicting a hung Parliament with the Tories as the largest party. Labour cannot now win a majority, but it is not clear which party will be in a position to form a government…

Read this on the BBC.

• A hung parliament is a parliament in which no single party has a majority although the major parties have a nearly equal number of members. So, the political parties may have to form a coalition (= work with other political parties) to be able to form a government.