Prime Minister Theresa May's failed election gamble has cast a party in Northern Ireland in the role of kingmaker, giving the province an unexpected chance to have a big say in Britain's divorce from the European Union.
Wearing a blue coat, May said her government would: "guide the country through the crucial Brexit talks" - which will begin in 10 days - to: "deliver in the will of the British people" by taking the United Kingdom out of the European Union.
Standing in front of 10 Downing Street, May said her Conservatives and the DUP will work together to "fulfil the promise of Brexit".
She's still hoping to get the "hard " Brexit she imagined when she called the election, but it will likely still be a humiliation - numerous Conservative MPs are rumoured to be furious at the loss of their majority, and we could see her cop a good old-fashioned Aussie-style boot from the top position. European Commission president Donald Tusk tweeted this morning: "We don't know when Brexit talks start".
Moritz Kraemer, sovereign chief ratings officer at S&P Global, told CNBC: "We have the outlook on the ratings still on negative indicating that further downgrade or downgrades could be in the wings going forward".
For instance, Menon said, some pro-EU Conservative legislators may wait until the Brexit legislative program comes to Parliament to start attacking it.
"That's what people voted for last June, that's what we will deliver".
With 649 of 650 seats declared, the Conservatives had won 318 seats and Labour 261.
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The party said it would be willing to negotiate with May but declined to comment on reports a deal had already been reached.
Both sides stopped short of calling the deal a coalition. The PM's support for "Fox hunting & changes to social care were turning points in how people felt about the PM in highly personalised campaign", she said on Twitter. But in one of the most sensational nights in British electoral history, a resurgent Labour Party denied her an outright win, throwing the country into political turmoil as no clear victor emerged.
"Our two parties have enjoyed a strong relationship over many years", she said.
Second, the anti-establishment sentiment that has been evident - in various guises - within the European Union referendum, Trump's election and the French presidential election has now emerged powerfully within a United Kingdom parliamentary vote.
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.
"Furthermore, we do not exclude the possibility of another snap election". It seemed many UKIP supporters deserted the party and voted instead for Conservatives or Labour.
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. But the only clear alternative is of another Tory leadership contest, followed by another general election at which the new leader tries to secure a decent parliamentary majority - taking more crucial months out of the two-year Article 50 Brexit negotiation period, which ends on 29 March 2019.
SNP leader and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it had been a disappointing night for her party, which lost seats to the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
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