British Prime Minister Theresa May's two co-chiefs of staff quit Saturday as the fallout from the Conservative's poor showing in this week's general election continued. "I take responsibility for my part in this election campaign, which was the oversight of our policy programme", he said.
Timothy, who was special adviser to Theresa May when she was Secretary of State at the Home Office and also worked on her election campaign, was appointed Joint Chief of Staff previous year in July.
May fell eight seats short of the House of Commons majority.
There were also misgivings about relying on the DUP, which strongly opposes same-sex marriage and abortion.
She described her tenure in No.10 Downing Street as a "painful ten months" filled with meetings where staffers would sit in silence "while Fiona would raise some batshit insane idea". Chief Whip Gavin Williamson is in Belfast to begin formal talks on a deal.
After the election, May met with Queen Elizabeth II, who announced her intention to form a coalition with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, which would provide the Conservative Party with a lack of seats in parliament and hold London through negotiations with Brussels on Britain's withdrawal from the EU.
"Trying to make that change to Number 10 was more hard than she possibly anticipated", Perrior said.
But he denied reports that the much-derided policy, over which Mrs May was forced to make what was widely seen as an embarrassing u-turn, had been his "personal pet project".
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Wawrinka knocked out Andy Murray in the semi-finals and will be looking to cause another upset of the clay courts of Paris . "Nine titles are more than enough", he said, before adding with a smile: "Ten is only 10 per cent more than nine".
Before the election, May had a working majority of 17.
May's office has already said that the senior Cabinet members Treasury chief Philip Hammond, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Amber Rudd will keep their current jobs, but she is expected to reshuffle the lower ranks of ministers.
But other senior Tories have been conspicuous in their silence, and behind the scenes the party has been engaged in fevered debate whether to push for May's ouster - if not now, then perhaps in several months after Britain's European Union divorce talks have launched.
Writing in the "Times", she said: "What I could never work out was whether May condoned their behaviour and turned a blind eye or didn t understand how destructive they both were".
Her chief of staff Nick Timothy said he takes "full responsibility" as the calls for May to resign continue from within the party.
He tweeted: "Top Theresa May adviser resigns".
Ms Davidson, who wields considerable influence after the Scottish Tories won 13 seats, said: "I want to ensure that we can look again at issues like Brexit which we know we are now going to have to get cross-party support for".
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