brexit negotiations which starts really soon. this makes it harder fer teresa may to walk in with a mandate. absolutely. it certainly wasn t a resounding, you know, vote of confidence in her leadership. and i think what s so interesting is that teresa may was really trying to pull her party to the left as jeremy corbin pulled labor to the left. the wall street journal noted in one of its pieces that if bernie sanders had been running for labor he very well might have won. and teresa may was trying to make a kinder, gentler party in britain and that didn t work. that s confused the brexit negotiations which wasn t that. brexit was sort of a resounding vote to get out of the european union. and that wasn t what teresa may really was running on. the hottest takes have been writ on the trump effect of this election. what s the real story? if you step back from this,