May, jolted by the electoral setback, however, remained defiant to calls for her resignation and vowed to form a minority government with the informal backing of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
She will also face pressure from the different wings of the Conservative party over her Brexit stance.
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Confident of securing a sweeping victory, May had called the snap election to strengthen her hand in the European Union divorce talks.
The Conservatives and the DUP, a socially conservative party that backed Brexit, are expected to work together on a vote-by-vote basis rather than enter a formal alliance.
Going into the election, reports emerged of Ms May's post-vote plans to reshuffle her top team, with prominent figures like Chancellor Philip Hammond, Brexit Secretary David Davis and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson either facing the sack or being moved. The Queen, as she has done for over six decades, agreed with her prime minister.
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"For the United Kingdom, the debate needs to start on what the British people think Brexit should mean". We know when they must end. "Do your best to avoid a "no deal" as result of "no negotiations".
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon conceded her plans for a second vote on independence were "undoubtedly" a factor in the losses.
But EU budget commissioner Guenther Oettinger said May was now likely to be a "weak" partner.
National security was also a major issue of the election campaign following recent and deadly terror attacks in the country. Yet to take power the party needs to attract Tory voters, as Tony Blair did; yet if Mr Corbyn keeps to the same hard-Left programme outlined in the manifesto he will never broaden Labour's appeal.
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At the time, she was considered a strong favorite against Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
For all her cool, the result was a blow, with large consequences.
But her campaign unravelled after a policy U-turn on care for the elderly, while Mr Corbyn's old-school socialist platform and more impassioned campaigning style won wider support than anyone had foreseen. But I think the Conservative Party thought actually, the alternatives to Theresa May staying in place were even worse.
Dogus sharply closed the gap on the sitting member of parliament from Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives in the Cities of London and Westminster constituency - home to Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and the British capital's financial centre. "In my view it may well just be a period of transition", she told LBC radio.
None of this lessens the wretchedness of the Conservative position.
To be clear, the Labour party does not currently possess a majority itself ― it still trails the Tories by 57 seats as of this writing ― but the Tories have now dipped below the 50 percent threshold, making for a hung parliament, and for vast pressure on May to resign. Nobody expects her to lead the Conservatives into the next general election and most predict she will be gone within months. "Brussels will be licking its lips", it said.
The London Evening Standard, edited by former finance minister George Osborne who May sacked, splashed with a photo of her under the headline "Queen of Denial".
"I am sorry for those candidates and hard-working party workers who weren't successful but also particularly sorry for those colleagues who were MPs or ministers who had contributed so much to our country and who lost their seats and didn't deserve to lose their seats".
Most of the other parties - Liberal Democrats (12 seats), Scottish Nationalists (35), Welsh Nationalists (4) and the Greens (1) - are broadly liberal-leftist and anti-Brexit.
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.
Corbyn's Labour Party officially backs Brexit.
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