Spectacularly punished by voters who took away her majority in parliament, a politically wounded Theresa May sought to soldier on Friday as Britain's prime minister, resisting pressure to resign after the failure of her high-stakes election gamble made the massive challenge of untangling Britain from the European Union only more complex and uncertain.
According to the Guardian, 207 women were elected to the House of Commons, breaking past the 196 women elected in 2015.
The Brexit talks were set to start on June 19 with UK Brexit secretary David Davis' meeting European Union's chief negotiator Michel Barnier.
THERESA May has promised to provide "certainty" for Britain, despite a disastrous performance in a snap election that saw the Conservatives lose their majority in Parliament. There have also been suggestions that May could try to form an alliance with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, whose controversial policies include stopping gay marriage, in order to form a government without a majority.
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.
"We will continue to work with our friends and allies in the Democratic Unionist Party in particular", she said.
Conservative MP for Broxtowe, Anna Soubry, told the BBC May would have to "consider her position" in the wake of the election.
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Mnuchin has offered a broad range - the second half of the year - while Mulvaney has said it could happen as soon as August.
The prime minister acknowledged the uncertain outcome-known as a "hung Parliament"-early Friday".
The unhappy result of these conditions is that it will be hard to create a strong negotiating position on Brexit, and British negotiators will be left groping for solid political ground on which to take a stand. Few commentators appeared to believe that a minority Conservative government is sustainable for more than a few months.
"The prime minister called the election because she wanted a mandate", Corbyn said after winning re-election to his north London district. 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. He says that the federation will "push for the United Kingdom to remain in the single market and the customs union". "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.
May's majority in parliament until the snap election was only held by 17 seats, but now she is at a considerable disadvantage.
Brancaccio: The term of art here has been hard Brexit, a cleaner break.
"I'm not sure that we should read, from the results of this vote, that Britons' sovereign decision on Brexit has been cast into doubt in any way". Traders don't like uncertainty, so by the time most of the results were declared early on June 9, the pound had fallen by more than 2% against the dollar.
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