by scooping up voters who want to remain in the bloc. But many of those seem to have voted Labour instead. Clegg urged all politicians to try to heal a “deeply divided and polarized nation.”

The deputy leader of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s pro-independence party also lost his seat in Thursday’s election, in what is projected to be a disappointing night for Scotland’s nationalists. Angus Robertson, who led the SNP in the British parliament, lost to Conservative Douglas Ross in the constituency of Moray in northeast Scotland.

May became prime minister through a Conservative Party leadership contest when predecessor David Cameron resigned after the referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union. She went into the election untested on a national campaign, but with a reputation forquiet competence. She championed “strong and stable government.”

But the run-up to the election did not go to plan.

May was criticized for a lackluster campaign and for a plan to force elderly people to pay more for their care, a proposal her opponents dubbed the “dementia tax.” As the polls suggested a tightening race, pollsters spoke less often of a landslide and raised the possibility that May’s majority would be eroded.

After terror attacks in Manchester and London that killed 30 people and forced the suspension of campaigning, security became the focus of the debate.

(FILES) A combination of pictures created in London on April 18, 2017 shows British Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Theresa May (L) speaking at a press conference during a European Summit at the EU headquarters