London [U.K.], June 10: British Prime Minister Theresa May has said she would take time to eflect on how to move forward after a surprise snap election result left the Conservative Party without a majority in the Parliament.
However, shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith has called on Theresa May to step aside to allow Labour a chance to form a minority government.
Some senior Tories have made the removal of Hill and Timothy a condition for continuing to support May, who has vowed to remain prime minister despite the Conservatives' losing their overall majority in Parliament. The Labor Party increased its representation from 232 to 261. The Conservatives have eight seats short of the figure needed for simple majority. Less than a year after May was propelled into Downing Street following Britain's surprise referendum decision to leave the European Union, party insiders were placing bets on how long she could last.
The last time a British Prime Minister was humiliated in a vote they called themselves, they resigned the following day: That was David Cameron on June 24 previous year.
The coalition between Conservatives and the DUP is facing backlash, as many don't agree with the Northern Irish party's hard-right views.
Corbyn called for May to resign but the BBC reported she had no intention of doing so. The result is also perhaps the start of the revival of the Labour Party.
"I'm afraid we ran a pretty awful campaign", Ms Soubry said. "Our leader needs to take stock as well". "She got that share of the vote and won, so let her form a government". Nuttall served as leader of UKIP until he announced his resignation Friday morning.
Earlier this week during a speaking tour of the United Kingdom and Europe Sanders said he saw "a real similarity" between Corbyn's campaign and his own bid for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 USA presidential election.
The British pound fell more than 2% to $1.2642 on Friday as markets reacted to the political uncertainty the outcome brings.
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May said Brexit talks would begin on June 19 as scheduled, the same day as the formal reopening of parliament.
European Union budget commissioner Guenther Oettinger said the European Union is prepared to stick to the timetable that calls for negotiations to start in mid-June, but also said: "Without a government, there's no negotiation".
As she was resoundingly re-elected to her Maidenhead seat in southern England, May looked tense and did not spell out what she planned to do.
"She's then got to present a programme to Parliament. I would have thought that is enough for her to go, actually".
The election result saw Mrs May scramble to form a minority government to have any kind of Commons majority.
The election came after three deadly terror attacks in Britain in less than three months. But Jeremy Corbyn remains the only statesman Britain has. He also hammered May on her lack of detail on domestic policies on education, health care and welfare policies. Mostly, the European Union mood was one of frustration that the already tough Brexit talks were likely to become only more hard.
"These are discussions that will be long and that will be complex".
"I don't worry about that, partly because I think that the Democratic Party has stayed pretty grounded in fact and reality", Obama told Axelrod at the time.
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