Pegleg
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Perhaps "tiny" was a bit strong. However, Exit polls are notoriously wrong. So I don't but a poll where we have a very big turnout to be necessarily valid. People leaving as a group may well give answers that are based on the group and not individual.
Regarding the calling of an election. There is, to my knowledge, nothing to stop the government resigning. Clearly Labour could not form a government so a GE would have to occur. Any new Leader could do this, not by calling a vote of NC but by saying that he feels that the fundamental constitutional change removes his / her mandate. A number of Tory spokespeople claimed the Brown should have gone to the country when he took over from Blair as he had not been given a "personal mandate" to be PM. The new Conservative leader could follow that line.
Regarding the calling of an election. There is, to my knowledge, nothing to stop the government resigning. Clearly Labour could not form a government so a GE would have to occur. Any new Leader could do this, not by calling a vote of NC but by saying that he feels that the fundamental constitutional change removes his / her mandate. A number of Tory spokespeople claimed the Brown should have gone to the country when he took over from Blair as he had not been given a "personal mandate" to be PM. The new Conservative leader could follow that line.
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