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Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives are set to lose their overall majority after Britain's general election, an exit poll showed on Thursday after voting closed, AFP reports.

The Conservatives were set to win 314 seats, followed by Labour on 266, the Scottish National Party on 34 and the Liberal Democrats on 14, the poll for the BBC, Sky and ITV showed.

Theresa May is facing a mounting backlash over her “catastrophic” election campaign. May opted to go for snap elections aiming to strengthen her government. The gamble, however, failed to pay off and now Great Britain is left in chaos.

Polls opened in Britain on Thursday in an election Prime Minister Theresa May had expected to win easily but one that has proved increasingly hard to predict after a campaign shadowed by terrorism, AFP reported.

''British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party risks falling short of winning an overall majority of seats in parliament in a national election on June 8'', The Times newspaper said on Tuesday, quoting research by polling firm YouGov.

Britain's opposition Labour Party has cut the lead of Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives to five points less than a fortnight before a national election, according to the first poll published since a suicide bombing killed 22 people.

The prospect of a Conservative General Election victory increased this morning after local elections showed Labour suffering losses across the country and the Ukip vote collapsing.

Theresa May’s party has made significant gains in Wales and England, just weeks before the country goes to the polls to decide whether Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn takes the keys to Number 10.

Exit polls have shown that Mr Rutte’s VVD party will win 31 of 150 seats in today’s parliamentary election, compared to 19 seats for 3 other parties, including that of Mr Wilders. Weeks or months of coalition talks are expected to follow.
The exit poll was conducted at 43 of the 9,300 polling stations across the country. It had a margin of error of two percentage points.

Brussels are intensifying pressure on the Greek government for immediate reforms on labour-related issues.

A co-leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the main target of a government-led provisional change in the constitution that would allow parliament to lift legislative immunities, has vowed to not "voluntarily" comply with any possible legal call for prosecution.

The Netherlands is working with some EU members on a plan to send migrants back to Turkish soil in exchange for giving asylum to up to 250,000 others already hosted by Turkey, a top Dutch lawmaker has said, drawing criticisms from the European Commission as well as rights groups.