Voters may have also been unimpressed with her refrain that "no deal is better than a bad deal" because it raised the prospect of crashing out of the EU.
May, who took over after the June 2016 Brexit referendum, began the formal two-year process of leaving the European Union on March 29, promising to take Britain out of the single market and cut immigration. The Tory hard Brexiteers may try to push May or her Tory successor around.
Even if May remains at the helm of the next government, she will have to negotiate a Brexit agreement that will have little chance of getting through the House of Commons, as all other parties (including even Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, on which her next government would have to rely) want a relatively soft Brexit. His replacement, Theresa May, once again overestimated her hand.
German Chancellor Angela "Merkel will notice that, (French President Emmanuel) Macron will notice that".
"She has to go and ask for things now and they can say "well we'll see". The legal question of whether Article 50 is revocable has not yet been determined, but most legal scholars (and indeed those who drafted it), take the view that it is.
Free-market think tanks such as the Adam Smith Institute have criticised May for the inexistence of her ideological support: she relies on no past thinkers, particular philosophy and on very few policy advisors for the drafting of her leadership. The issue didn't resonate on the campaign trail, and it didn't resonate at the ballot box either: The party got a slightly smaller percentage of the vote than last time.
The Scottish National Party, or SNP, also suffered major election losses.
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Rachel Sheard, who was casting her vote near the site of Saturday's attack in London, said the election had not gone as expected - and that it certainly wasn't about Brexit. But chaos is likely to continue for some time to come.
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May's ruling Conservative Party lost seats to Labor and the Liberal Democrats and ended with 318 seats.
The political uncertainty generated by this election must not derail the Brexit process. The irony is that European Union officials would have preferred a decisive majority for either the Tories or Labour so there was some stability on the United Kingdom side of the table.
"Article 50 has been triggered and we were on our way".
Leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said the result had put the whole future of Brexit at risk. The Labour Party has been awfully silent on Brexit, something that had previously lead a former Labour leader to criticise Corbyn for his "silence or ignorance" on the matter.
"I don't think that's in the hearts and minds of Londoners at the minute, (not) almost as much as security is", said Sheard, 22.
"We may well be looking down the barrel of a second referendum", he said. For a General Election ostensibly called because of Brexit, discussions were limited to which leader was trusted to deliver it, rather than what "it" would look like. But the Brexit negotiations will not necessarily be handled by her.
On the day after, she tried to go on as though nothing much had changed.
Faucher recalled that seven weeks prior to the election May was 20 percent ahead of the Labour party, and lost nearly 18 percentage points to find herself nose-to-nose with her major rival.
It is a testimony to the low expectations for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour that this result is being hailed as a victory for the party, even though it lost to the Conservatives by about the same popular vote percentage as Donald Trump lost to Hillary Clinton.
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