 It was going to be a very tall order if he was going to win the election. However, he has not just not won it, he's lost it really badly, and he's blamed for calling it early. He didn't need to call it this early, and for some pretty bad missteps in the campaign, perhaps the most notable of which was leaving the D-Day commemoration event early to go off and do a TV interview, and that didn't go down well.