UK election: "they seem to have lost their majority" (expert) Tim Bale, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University, says "If the exit poll is right then Labour really have ripped up the rulebook on what we know about politics. The conservatives were ahead on all the main issues, they were ahead on leadership, they were ahead on competence and yet they seem to have lost their majority," after a shock exit poll suggests Prime Minister Theresa May is poised to win Britain's snap election but lose her parliamentary majority. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES