For instance, Menon said, some pro-EU Conservative legislators may wait until the Brexit legislative program comes to Parliament to start attacking it.
Scottish Tory party leader Ruth Davidson also urged the government to pursue an "open Brexit, not a closed one".
"Our shared responsibility and urgent task now is to conduct the negotiations.in the best possible spirit, securing the least disruptive outcome", said Tusk.
"The push for a "hard Brexit" is weakened". But it is also deeply anxious that splitting from the European Union will mean a return to a hard border across Ireland that could create economic and even political problems.
May called the snap election in April saying she wanted to increase her majority in order to have a stronger position in Brexit negotiations.
Barnier sounded conciliatory: "Brexit negotiations should start when United Kingdom is ready", he tweeted. The election led to a hung parliament after her party won only 318 seats, down from 330 they got in 2015.
Mrs Merkel added she hoped Britain would remain a good partner following the talks, due to begin on 19 June.
That's a problem for European officials who had seemed to come to grips with the notion of Brexit and were ready to deal with an empowered May.
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While Britain seems more divided, the European Union appears to have achieved unusual unity.
"The irony of this is that Theresa May is calling this a certainty government and talking about how it's delivering certainty", said Brian Klaas, a fellow in comparative politics at the London School of Economics.
Tim Farron demanded the PM delay the start of negotiations until the Government "reassessed its priorities" and told the public. Despite the poor showing, May said Friday she will form a new government with the support of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, which holds 10 seats. There is also resentment that, once again, the British have complicated things out of political hubris and partisan self-interest.
On June 23 it will be a full year since Britain voted to leave the EU.
European Union budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger stressed that the official deadline of March 2019 is a bit of a stretch in itself.
Eurasia Group raised the risk of "no deal" to 30% from 20%-an outcome that would leave the United Kingdom with none of its existing trade or security agreements by the March 2019 deadline. But that still leaves it far short of a majority, even in combination with other sympathetic parties, especially since the Scottish National Party lost 21 of its 56 seats, a serious blow to its goal of Scotland's independence.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Europe1 radio that Brexit talks "were never simple to begin with" and the talks "will be long and complex".
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