Thereafter, every time you see the heroine take a wrong turn or get entangled in some obstacle, you’re acutely conscious that time is running short and something is going to blow. This is the context for UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s disastrous wrong turn in calling yesterday’s general election. She had already lit the fuse in March, when she filed a notification to the European Union that the UK intended to leave. If the UK could negotiate good terms to cover its future economic relations with the EU, the impact of Brexit would be minimized. The UK very much wanted to continue the latter three, but disquiet about immigration was a key motivating factor in the Brexit vote.

Source: Forbes June 09, 2017 19:11 UTC