After repeatedly ruling out calling a snap election, she went to the country in the hope her party would secure a larger majority ahead of Brexit negotiations.
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party failed to win a parliamentary majority in Britain's election on Friday (June 9), a shock result that plunges domestic politics into turmoil and could delay Brexit talks.
Asked if she would now be willing to serve under Mr Corbyn, she said: "We have leadership elections in the Labour Party and Jeremy won the leadership elections fair and square".
Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says people have had enough of "austerity politics".
He said: "I'm hoping the situation will be clarified within days, otherwise we are in an impossible position with the negotiations on Brexit coming".
More people voted yesterday than in any election since 1992, when 33.6 million people voted. If this does translate into a hung parliament when results come through, Theresa May as incumbent prime minister will have the first shot at trying to form a government - either as a minority or in coalition with others. The Conservative bigwigs watching the vote count at Carlton Club in London overnight are discussing the candidacies of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and UK Brexit Secretary David Davis for a new leader of the party and the country's prime minister.
It's a huge embarrassment for May, who called the early election with the aim of shoring up support for the Conservatives ahead of the country's crucial Brexit negotiations.
"This is a very bad moment for the Conservative Party, and we need to take stock", Conservative lawmaker Anna Soubry said. "I'm afraid we ran a pretty awful campaign and that's me being generous", she said, "She's (May) a very talented woman and she doesn't shy from hard decisions but she has to consider her position".
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The Labour Party drew strong support from young people, who appeared to have turned out to vote in bigger-than-expected numbers.
The Conservatives could potentially turn for support to Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), a natural ally, projected to win 10 seats.
The Conservatives were saved from an even worse result by surprise gains in Scotland, where the Scottish National Party's push for a new independence referendum backfired spectacularly.
Many predicted she would soon be gone.
Some also argue that any Labour-led coalition might aim for a softer deal on Britain's planned departure from the European Union than the "hard Brexit" markets have anxious May would deliver.
Ahead of the election Corbyn offered United Kingdom voters the most left-wing, big government policy agenda for almost 40 years-and crucially an end to seven years of Conservative "austerity" policies and campaigning on promises to push for better funding for health and education.
"With the two-year Article 50 clock ticking, the passage of time is sterling-negative", he added, referring to the formal Article 50 process by which Britain is set to leave the EU. As the polls suggested a tightening race, pollsters spoke less often of a landslide and raised the possibility that May's majority would be eroded. Corbyn accused Conservatives of undermining Britain's security by cutting the number of police on the streets. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a pop concert in Manchester on May 22, killing 22 people. She had campaigned nearly exclusively on her promise to secure a swift Brexit deal that would be advantageous to the UK.
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