UK government wins key parliament vote on programme

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves Downing Street in London, Britain June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May won backing for her policy programme with a slender parliamentary majority on Thursday in the first major test of her authority since the June 8 election. May won the vote by 323 votes to 309 votes. (Reporting by Elizabeth Piper, editing by David Milliken)