Trump Offers 'Warm Support' to Theresa May After Poll Setback

Flanked by her members of Parliament, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader, and former Northern Ireland First Minister, Arlene Foster (C), poses for a photograph outside the Stormont Hotel in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 9, 2017, following the result of the general election.

Britain's best-selling Sun newspaper said senior members of her party had vowed to get rid of May, but would wait at least six months because they were anxious that a leadership contest now could propel Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn into power.

British newspapers summed it up in a word: Mayhem.

Following the embarrassing result, website Conservative Home held a snap poll of its own on whether Mrs May should announce her resignation.

A resurgent Labour party defied expectations, increasing the party's number of seats.

The final result was announced nearly 24 hours after polls closed. After three recounts, Labour took the wealthy London constituency of Kensington from the Conservatives by just 20 votes.

Speaking outside No. 10 Downing St., May scarcely acknowledged the election's outcome, promising to form "a government that can provide certainty".

The European Parliament president stressed the importance of a "stable government" in the United Kingdom at the start of the Brexit negotiations, set to begin on June 19. He urged May to "go and make way for a government that is truly representative of this country".

This is the first time since the 1990s that Britain has a minority government, in which the governing party can not get measures though Parliament without outside support. She said: "I'm sorry for all those colleagues who lost their seats".

Cutting a deal with the Democratic Unionists, which won 10 seats, may not be straightforward. Several Conservative lawmakers, including Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, have also raised concerns about the DUP's opposition to same-sex marriage.

May also assumed that the centrists and moderates who had voted Conservative in 2015 and to "Remain" in Europe in 2016 would have to vote for her because they would have nowhere else to go. In February 1974, Ted Heath chose to ask voters "Who governs Britain?" when he did not have to. When voters chose to leave, he resigned, leaving May to deal with the mess.

"May won't be able to make any compromises because she lacks a broad parliamentary majority", he said.

Allen said she couldn't see May hanging on for "more than six months".

"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".

"It is not the outcome any of us would have wanted in the Conservative Party".

Instead of heading to the Conservative party, many Brexit supporters turned instead to Labour, attracted by the pledge to renationalise the railways, mail and some energy providers, the Labour source said.

Victoria Honeyman, an expert on Labour at the University of Leeds, cautioned that despite the Corbyn surge, many still don't see him as a potential prime minister.

"Honestly, it feels nearly like she is nearly not aware of what has happened in the last 24 hours", Conservative lawmaker Heidi Allen told LBC radio.

The election's biggest victor was Corbyn, who confounded expectations that his left-wing views made him electorally toxic. With 649 of 650 seats declared, the Tories had 318 seats - eight short of the figure needed to win outright - with Labour on 261, the SNP on 35 and Liberal Democrats on 12.Jeremy Corbyn's party increase its share of the vote by 9.6 per cent, while the Tories were up 5.5 per cent, the Liberal Democrats, Greens and SNP saw small loses and Ukip's vote collapsed.

The inherent weakness of a minority government raises the prospect of another election later this year, which would undoubtedly cause more turbulence.

Jeremy Corbyn was bang on target with young voters with his pledge to abolish tuition fees. "May was going to be victorious", said Ben Page, chief executive of pollster Ipsos MORI. Not what the establishment and their media mouthpieces insist they should want.

Corbyn was elected Labour leader nearly two years ago on a groundswell for change - a shift mirrored across Europe, where centre-left parties have lost support to anti-establishment movements that have emerged since the 2008 crisis.

Late in the campaign, Britain was hit by two Islamist militant attacks that killed 30 people in Manchester and London, temporarily shifting the focus onto security issues.

"I will never apologise for my view which is, yes of course you've got to inspire people, and we haven't done that well enough in the past".

"I voted with my heart and my head".

She has also faced calls from within her own party to consider her own position after the snap election. There have been precedents of minority governments but they are inherently unstable arrangements.