In another twist in the United Kingdom political landscape, the country is facing a hung Parliament after Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party failed to win enough votes to keep an overall majority in the House of Commons in yesterday's snap election. May said she could rely in parliament on the support of her "friends" in Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party.
In the new government, May plans to ally with the small Democratic Unionist Party, the BBC reports.
With one result to be declared, the Conservatives have won 318 seats, gaining 20, losing 32 giving them an overall loss of 12.
May said the government would guide the country through critical Brexit talks due to take place later this month, suggesting there would be no change to the timeline.
European Union states are getting impatient about the delays in the Brexit talks, with some warning Friday after Britain's inconclusive election that the country should not be given more than the allotted two years to settle its divorce.
Minority: The Conservatives or Labour could attempt to form a government despite a minority in Parliament, but this makes it harder to get legislation through.
When May called the election in April, she did so with the Conservatives riding high in the polls, and the pound had surged on expectations that a big majority for the Conservatives would allow her to quell the so-called euroskeptics in her parliamentary ranks. Theresa May promised strong and stable leadership.
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The UK prime minster Theresa May's disastrous election result is casting doubt on the UK's Brexit negotiations. European officials are anxious that the weaker position of the Conservatives make a breakdown in negotiations more likely.
"That's what people voted for last June; that's what we deliver". "People are going to wonder whether if this is really is the right move, and if opinion polls shift, and if there is a demand for a second referendum on the deal that any government does, we may well have one" he says.
"It is exactly the opposite of why she held the election and she then has to go and negotiate Brexit in that weakened position", said Professor Tony Travers of the London School of Economics.
The Telegraph newspaper, seen as leaning toward Britain's Conservative Party, reported Friday - citing anonymous party sources - that May had been put "on notice" by her Conservative colleagues not to bend to the wishes of opposition parties and soften her stance on Brexit negotiations. They will be even more furious when the Brexit-related economic contractions begin.
Thursday's vote snatched away the mandate May sought for her hard Brexit vision- of leaving the single market and the customs union. "I would have thought that is enough for her to go, actually".
British politicians, including within May's own party, differ widely on what they want from the Brexit negotiating process. But Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister has lost out.
British voters just sent a strong signal that they are increasingly tired of xenophobic rhetoric and public policies based on the principle of economic austerity.
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