LONDON (Sputnik) – As the United Kingdom is counting the votes in the 2015 general election, the Labour Party announced that the Conservatives, forecast to win the elections with 316 seats, and the Scottish National Party (SNP) have weakened Great Britain in the course if the election campaign.
both the SNP and Tories have undermined our country during this campaign
— Labour Press Team (@labourpress) May 8, 2015
The BBC/ITV/Sky exit poll results showed that Conservatives were leading in the Thursday election with 316 seats, which is 77 more than the Labour Party managed to secure. The SNP came third with 58 out of 59 possible seats.
Whoever forms next govt will have huge task in terms of uniting our country
— Labour Press Team (@labourpress) May 8, 2015
Anne Lapping, Vice chairman for the council and court of the London School of Economics (LSE) told Sputnik after the poll data was released that the SNP results pointed to a threat to the unity of the United Kingdom.
"I'd treat the exit poll with HUGE caution," Sturgeon wrote on her Twitter page, adding that she was hoping "for a good night" but considered 58 seats to be an "unlikely" result for SNP.
To form a majority government a party needs to win 323 seats. In the absence of a clear leader, the three possible outcomes of the UK general election are a formal coalition, a so-called confidence and supply agreement between the parties, or cooperation on a vote-by-vote basis.
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband expressed his willingness to have a vote-by-vote partnership with SNP during the last BBC Question Time debate.
