Theresa May's top aides resign after election fiasco

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Facing demands to quit after her electoral gamble failed, May on Friday scheduled an early weekend meeting of her governing circle in an apparent bid to reassert authority and project stability.

She may not go immediately, but the Conservative Party is ruthless with losers.

Toby French, a 19-year-old political science student, said Labour's message - and the way it was delivered, via popular social media platforms - resonated with him.

"May fights to remain PM", the Daily Telegraph headlined.

Conservative legislator Nigel Evans said the departure of the two aides was "a start", but there needed to be changes to the way the government functioned in the wake of the campaign.

"I'm afraid we ran a pretty awful campaign", Ms Soubry said.

The Downing St. resignations came as May worked to fill jobs in her minority government and replace ministers who lost their seats on Thursday. What she didn't bargain for were the Labour voters who were mobilized by their country's terrifying direction.

Corbyn said that he still could become the United Kingdom prime minister following snap general election where the Conservative party lost parliamentary majority.

With all but one constituency declared, the Conservatives won 318 seats - down from 331 at the 2015 election - while Labour was on 261, up from 229. "That's going to make it hard for the European Union 27 because they're going to want to know who they're talking to and what their policy is".

May was initially forecast to be on course for a landslide.

That result has obliged a thrashed Tory party, now without an overall majority, to form a working relationship - effectively an alliance - with the Democratic Unionist Party or DUP.

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Ruth Davidson, leader of Conservatives in Scotland, where the party did well, said the results showed the Conservatives should prioritise good trade relations with the EU.

May, however, insisted her party was still in pole position to lead, despite falling short by eight seats, CNN reports.

Clinging to power, May said the Tories would form a minority government with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, which won 10 seats.

But any deal between the two parties has yet to be announced, and details of how they may cooperate remain sketchy.

Don't just look at the results from Britain's polls that had Theresa May's Conservatives coming in at number one ahead of Jeremy Corbyn and Labour - the real winners and losers are far more interesting. "I think the only thing that political commentators can agree on is that we have uncertainty right now and nobody has any clue what shape this negotiation is going to take".

In particular, they will pledge to try to ensure that customs and immigration checks will not be introduce between Northern Ireland and the Republic, and that there will be no new restrictions on free movement between Northern Ireland and the British mainland.

The DUP is skeptical of Europe and is pro-Brexit.

"I don't think throwing us into a leadership battle at this moment in time, when we are about to launch into these hard negotiations, would be in the best interests of the country", Evans said.

The EU is willing to do a deal, we believe, but wants to draw a clear line between the benefits and responsibilities of members versus non-members. Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are leading a revived drive to reform the European Union, a bigger priority than spending energy haggling over Brexit terms.

But European Council President Donald Tusk warned there was "no time to lose" in starting the negotiations.

"We don't know when Brexit talks start".

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