Defence Secretary Michael Fallon watches as the first piece of steel for the next generation of nuclear submarines is cut in the plate production manufacturing facility at BAE Systems. Phil Noble/PA Images. All rights reserved.If a week is a long time in politics, then the six weeks since the general election in the United Kingdom on 8 June seem an eternity. The Westminster parliament's summer recess begins with Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party having transformed its electoral prospects and the Conservatives reduced to a chaotic state. Few could have imagined this outcome when the election was called on 18 April.
Such is the febrile state of British politics that it is impossible to predict how long the Conservative government will last and whether, if it does fall, Corbyn gets the chance to form a minority administration or whether another general election will be called.
Corbyn’s Labour Party has a serious chance of getting into power.
