Owen Bowcott

AUTEUR ET JOURNAL

Owen Bowcott is legal affairs correspondent. He was formerly the Guardian's Ireland correspondent and also worked on the foreign news

Founded by textile traders and merchants, The Guardian had a reputation as "an organ of the middle class",[105] or in the words of C.P. Scott's son Ted, "a paper that will remain bourgeois to the last".[106] "I write for the Guardian," said Sir Max Hastings in 2005,[107] "because it is read by the new establishment", reflecting the paper's then growing influence.

The paper's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion: a MORI poll taken between April and June 2000 showed that 80% of Guardian readers were Labour Party voters;[108] according to another MORI poll taken in 2005, 48% of Guardian readers were Labour voters and 34% Liberal Democrat voters.[109] The newspaper's reputation as a platform for liberal and left-wing opinions has led to the use of the epithets "Guardian reader" and "Guardianista" for people holding such views,[110][111] or as a negative stereotype of such people as middle class, earnest and politically correct.

 GENERAL ELECTION

British are called to the polls to elect their new MP, takes place every 5 years. A seat in the House of Commons 6hundred 50 (3hund25); each constituency (local area) is represented by one seat.

Leader of the winning party becomes prime minister

In order to have a majority : more than half the seats in the house +326

No overall majority: it’s called hung parliament

parties can agree to work together : coalition government

party with most seats can try to govern

Results of the election was the big victory of Tories with 331 (+24) seats in the House and the defeat of Labour who lost 26 seats for a total of 232 seats

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