May's office was forced to backtrack late Saturday after announcing that an outline deal had been agreed with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to form a government, admitting that talks were still ongoing.
Founded in 1971, the Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, is the largest party in Northern Island, akin to the SNP in Scotland.
The moves buy May a temporary reprieve.
"Discussions will continue next week to work on the details and to reach agreement on arrangements for the new Parliament".
May's aides, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill quit on Saturday following sustained criticism within the party of the campaign.
Some senior Tories had made the removal of Hill and Timothy a condition for continuing to support May, who has vowed to remain prime minister.
Their prized seats were now crucial to May's attempt to cling to power and gave her depleted Conservative Party the one-seat majority needed to form a minority government. We do not take your support for granted and we make you all a simple promise to do everything we can to reward the trust you have placed in this Party.
The pair formed part of May's small inner circle and were blamed by many Conservatives for the party's lacklustre campaign and unpopular election platform.
A Downing Street spokeswoman said: " The Prime Minister has tonight spoken with the DUP to discuss finalising a confidence and supply deal when Parliament returns next week.
Their differences highlight Northern Ireland's often stark dichotomy between religious-based social conservatism and secular progressive liberalism.
"It was a disaster", he said.
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But Johnson backed Prime Minister Theresa May and dismissed reports that he might be planning a leadership challenge after she failed to win a parliamentary majority for the Conservative Party in an election.
But the confusion reinforced a sense of chaos at the heart of government just days before Britain starts the complex and fraught negotiations on leaving the European Union. Some say her failure means the government must now take a more flexible approach to the divorce.
"I don't see any possibility of Sinn Fein taking their seats", added the Labour leader.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she assumed Britain still wanted to leave the European Union and talks should start quickly. All the most senior ministers - including Treasury chief Philip Hammond, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Defense Secretary Michael Fallon and Home Secretary Amber Rudd - kept their jobs and there were few changes in the Cabinet lineup.
The alliance makes some modernizing Conservatives uneasy.
A DUP source told The Telegraph: 'We wouldn't agree with parts of the Conservative manifesto.
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror newspaper Mr Corbyn said: "I can still be Prime Minister".
DUP Leader Arlene Foster recently denied the party was homophobic. "That's not a matter for me", she said. "He is not a fan of the Green Lobby who try to scaremonger people with their alarmist views".
But the wooing of the DUP risks upsetting the political balance in Northern Ireland by aligning London more closely with the pro-British side in the divided province, where a power-sharing government with Irish nationalists is now suspended.
"A grubby deal for a coalition of chaos", Tom Watson, deputy leader of the Labour Party reacted to the deal. In 2008, then-DUP minister Sammy Wilson (who was reelected to Parliament Thursday night) told the Belfast Telegraph, "I think in 20 years' time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all".
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