Certainly her position on Brexit talks seems to have been compromised, and this could be sound the death knell for her Prime Ministership. Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka of the Czech Republic told Czech Television that "now it will be necessary to wait for who will form a government and what this government will bring to negotiations over Brexit", Reuters reports.
"I think Corbyn was underestimated massively", Kevin Hector, a fifty-year-old worker at Swiss bank UBS, told AFP on Friday.
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"Clearly if she's got a worse result than two years ago and is nearly unable to form a government, then she, I doubt, will survive in the long term as Conservative Party leader", former Conservative Treasury chief George Osborne said on ITV.
Mr Farage said he had always been sceptical of Mrs May's motives and added: 'This may be unfinished business'. "Theresa May has put Brexit in jeopardy".
Sterling plunged against the dollar and the euro on Friday as the election result created even more uncertainty over the whole Brexit process.
May called for the snap election just seven weeks ago, rather than waiting until the next scheduled national election in 2020.
Mrs May is also facing a Remainer backlash in London as votes swing to Labour in defiance of the Brexit vote.
Labour claims its first scalp from the Tories, with junior minister Jane Ellison booted out of Battersea in south London by Marsha de Cordova.
At the time she was riding high in the polls and she pushed a tough message on Brexit on the campaign trail, saying she was planning to be a "bloody hard woman" in Brussels.
'She wanted to do it without any scrutiny or challenge. Protocol dictates that May must now put a "Queen's speech" to a vote in Parliament to officially establish her new government.
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Not exactly. The Cabinet Manual also says that an incumbent government 'is expected to resign if it becomes clear that it is unlikely to be able to command that confidence and there is a clear alternative'.
"The terms of us leaving are so much more up for grabs than they were before", he said.
But with complex talks on Britain's divorce from the European Union due to start in 10 days, it was unclear what their direction would now be and if the so-called "Hard Brexit" taking Britain out of a single market could still be pursued.
May, who went into the election with a reputation for quiet competence, was criticized for a lacklustre campaigning style and for a plan to force elderly people to pay more for their care, a proposal her opponents dubbed the "dementia tax".
"The prospect of a hung parliament, resulting either in a minority government or a coalition, paints a picture of an administration not in complete control during a period in which the United Kingdom needs its most focused administration for 70 years".
Some EU officials had voiced hope that a stronger majority for May could allow her to make more concessions in the negotiations.
However, it set Scotland on a collision course with the government, with May making it clear that "now is not the time" for a potential split in the UK.
What can not easily be delayed, however, is the date of Britain's departure from the European Union, which is due to take place exactly two years after the triggering of the Article 50 Brexit process on March 29 2019, whether or not a withdrawal deal has been reached.
"Yet another own goal, after Cameron, now May, will make already complex negotiations even more complicated", tweeted Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's lead Brexit negotiator, referring to former PM David Cameron's decision to call a referendum on the EU, which he then lost.
Instead, May - or her successor if she is forced to resign over her party's poor showing - will enter the talks that begin June 19 in a weakened position.
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