Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed ministers to her shaky government Sunday, as some Conservative colleagues rallied to support her - and others said her days were numbered after last week's disastrous election.
As the overall result of a hung Parliament in the United Kingdom general election becomes clear, Theresa May led Conservative party looks set to end with 319 MPs as opposed to Jeremy Corbyn led Labour s 261.
In Thursday's election the Conservatives won 318 of the 650 House of Commons seats, 12 fewer than the party had before the snap election, and eight short of the 326 needed for an outright majority.
A stony-faced May, speaking on the doorstep of her official Downing Street residence, said on Friday the government would provide certainty and lead Britain in talks with the European Union to secure a successful Brexit deal.
"We are ready to do everything we can to put our program into operation; there isn't a parliamentary majority for anybody at the present time, the party that has lost in this election is the Conservative Party, the arguments the Conservative Party put forward in this election have lost".
The Prime Minister would attempt to gain support of the Democratic Unionist Party.
DUP leader Arlene Foster confirmed she will enter talks with May in an effort to pursue "stability" in Parliament, without giving further details on the conditions for the partys support.
Trump, who was answering a shouted question from a reporter during an Oval Office photo opportunity, did not expand on his comment. Her 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.
But May, facing scorn for running a lacklustre campaign, was determined to hang on.
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Mrs May was interior minister for six years before rising to premier in the political chaos that following last June's Brexit referendum. After all, the Labour Party has not won 40 per cent of the popular vote since 2001 and did so this time with a radical manifesto.
That will nearly certainly be pushed back even more, as the Conservative Party now has its hands full trying to form a coalition with one or more other parties so as to remain in power.
"I think we've run a great and positive campaign and made a difference", said Dogus.
She later announced that her five most senior Cabinet ministers would stay in their posts, but suggested that her heavily criticised joint chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, would lose their jobs.
The election has raised hopes of a dramatic change in Britain's approach to Brexit.
A newcomer to running for parliament under the red banner of Labour, Dogus was careful not to criticise Corbyn, crediting him with being the first lawmaker he met when, at 17, he spoke about his Kurdish heritage at his college.
In the late stages of 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.
Meanwhile, Corbyn said the early results showed May had lost her mandate and called for her to resign.
The election, which has overturned all opinion poll projections of a strong Conservative party majority, recorded the highest turnout in 25 years at 68.7 per cent, with almost 32 million of the 46.9 million registered voters casting their ballots.
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