Tourism Industry Could Be a Beneficiary of UK Election Chaos
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Prime Minister Theresa May's reputation has been shattered by her own hubristic behaviour and she is only clinging onto power through a loose alliance with another party. The UK is in a much weakened position as it prepares to start Brexit negotiations.
Prime Minister Theresa May’s gamble on calling an early election to shore up her mandate for Brexit failed spectacularly after her right wing Conservative Party actually lost seats in the UK general election.
Jeremy Corbyn – the UK’s answer to Bernie Sanders, in some ways – did much better than expected, leaving the country with a hung parliament just10 days before Brexit negotiations are set to begin.
May is determined to cling to power and has already said she will look to form a minority government but after her humiliating defeat she will now have to rely on Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which won 10 seats, to get anything done. Even with the DUP's help her position looks precarious and to get any support she will need to offer something in return.
This is where it gets interesting for the travel industry. While tourism merited precisely zero mentions in the Con
