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Also worth noting that the figure of 323 seats isn't completely reliable. The Green Party have said that they won't enter into a formal coalition and will only work on a confidence and supply arrangement with a party in power. They're unlikely to enter into an agreement with conservatives but wouldn't be counted as full allies of Labour. Theoretically you could subtract any seats that they win from the calculations to command the confidence of a majority in parliament.
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With all due respect to Owen Jones, I think that article is pants. A second election is the much more likely scenario if we assume that neither 'side' has an overall majority. As Ken Clarke has pointed out, the outcome of a second election may not be far different, as in 1974, but we'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it.