In a resignation message on the ConservativeHome website, Mr Timothy said: "I take responsibility for my part in this election campaign, which was the oversight of our policy programme".
"The reason for the disappointing result was not the absence of support for Theresa May and the Conservatives but an unexpected surge in support for Labour", Timothy said in an article published on the ConservativeHome blog.
When I heard that exit poll at 10pm last Thursday, I was as thrilled as anyone on the progressive side to think that the anticipated Conservative majority wouldn't be delivered.
Confirming her party will attend talks on Monday, Sinn Féin's Northern leader Michelle O'Neill said the DUP-Conservative relationship meant nationalists would turn away from the British government and instead look to the Republic of Ireland for impartial support in peace talks.
Several newspapers said Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was being urged by supporters to launch a leadership challenge, but he dismissed the reports as "tripe".
However, across the Irish sea we have seen extraordinary gains from the Democratic Unionist Party, who have taken ten of Northern Ireland's eighteen seats. "I just don't see how she can continue in any long-term way". Chief among its potential allies would be the Scottish National Party (SNP), which suffered major setbacks but still won a majority of Scottish seats.
She put on a fearless face, refusing to show any contrition for the election gamble that spectacularly backfired, but observers say she has been deeply wounded.
British Prime Minister Theresa May is making appointments to her Cabinet as she tries to shore up authority undermined by a poor election result.
Katie Perrior, who quit as May's communications chief in April, said Timothy and Hill were "great street fighters but poor political leaders" and exercised too much power over the prime minister.
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Mrs Foster was elected MLA for Fermanagh and South Tyrone for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in 2003, but weeks later, she joined the DUP, along with Jeffrey Donaldson, another defector from the UUP, following splits over the direction the Ulster Unionists had been taking under David Trimble's leadership.
On Brexit, the DUP supports leaving the European Union but opposes a return to a "hard" border with Ireland - which could happen if May carries through her threat to walk away from the talks rather than accept a "bad deal".
The DUP, whose 10 seats would allow the government to get measures through Parliament, is a socially conservative pro-British Protestant group that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage and includes both environmentalists and climate-change deniers among its senior ranks.
Speaking after visiting Buckingham Palace on Friday, she said only her party had the "legitimacy" to govern, despite falling eight seats short of a majority, the BBC reported.
"I think it's quite possible there'll be an election later this year or early next year, and that might be a good thing because we can not go on with a period of great instability", he told the BBC.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the U.K.in which same-sex marriage is illegal.
"May stares into the abyss", wrote The Times, while the Conservative-supporting Sun tabloid said succinctly: "She's had her chips".
May's Labour rival Jeremy Corbyn, once written off by his opponents as a no-hoper, said May should step down and he wanted to form a minority government.
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