Does Brexit mean uncertainty? That’s the question many are asking in the wake of Thursday’s British snap elections, with neither of the two main party leaders clarifying how they’d navigate the churning waters of EU separation. Despite resignation calls, Prime Minister Theresa May, having lost her Conservative Party’s majority, managed to eke out a governing coalition with Northern Ireland’s unionists on Friday.
But far from winning an unequivocal mandate, she now has a razor-thin grip on power as German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Brussels is ready to start Brexit talks — even if May isn’t.