Tory heavyweights watching the results of the vote count over night at Carlton Club in London were calling for May's resignation, criticizing in strong words her decision to call snap election, and discussing the candidacies for a new party leader and prime minister. This translated into 318 seats for the Conservatives (a net loss of 12)-and a loss of the party's overall majority of 330-compared to 261 seats for Labour (a net gain of 29).
"She got 42% of the vote, normally you would be over the f-king moon about that".
"I think Jeremy Corbyn has had a magnificent campaign".
She didn't specify how her Conservative Party would "work together" with the Northern-Ireland-based party.
Analysts say May's electoral debacle could reopen what had seemed largely a closed debate - both with pro-EU members of Parliament trying to take advantage of the prime minister's weakness and Euro-skeptic government ministers threatening her if she dares water down a Brexit deal.
The last time a British Prime Minister was humiliated in a vote they called themselves, they resigned the following day: That was David Cameron on June 24 previous year.
Above all, investors are anxious about the general uncertainty surrounding the country - whether a bruised May will resign in due course, whether the Conservatives will be able to form a new government or whether it will be an alliance of opposition parties, led by the Labour Party. Questions were soon raised about the longevity of the minority government, the possibility of another election in the near future, the approach to Brexit talks that will inevitably be influenced by the election results, and the role the resurgent Labour will play in future.
United Kingdom voters said they wanted.
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"Brexit negotiations should start when United Kingdom is ready; timetable and European Union positions are clear".
Party leader Jeremy Corbyn urged Mrs May to resign and allow him to form a minority administration, declaring: "We are ready to serve this country". "I was kind of hoping it would just go the way that the polls suggested it would and we could have a quiet life in Westminster but now it's going to be a bit of a mess".
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said the idea of a new independence referendum "is dead".
But if the voting is spread more widely and no party reaches 326 seats they are left with three options - form a coalition, send the public back to the polls or form a minority government.
May said that "of course I'll reflect on what happened". He was the shortest-serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century, with 211 days in office, and is sometimes called "The Unknown Prime Minister".
May had spent the campaign denouncing Corbyn as the weak leader of a spendthrift party that would crash Britain's economy and flounder in Brexit talks, while she would provide "strong and stable leadership" to clinch a good deal for Britain.
"What tonight is about is the rejection of Theresa May's version of extreme Brexit", said Keir Starmer, Labour's policy chief on Brexit, saying his party wanted to retain the benefits of the European single market and customs union.
Gus McKay, a 38-year-old Conservative voter at Euston station in central London, said he was "frustrated" May had failed to connect with younger voters.
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