May's Downing St. office said Conservative Chief Whip Gavin Williamson was in Belfast Saturday for talks with the DUP "on how best they can provide support to the government".
That leaves the Conservatives with 317 seats in Parliament out of 650, meaning they're likely to need the DUP's 10 votes to win a confidence motion.
'Running a country is more hard and she's formidably good at that.
Theresa May was left eight seats short of an overall majority in the general election, while the DUP won 10 seats.
On June 19, the Queen, in traditional state coach and full regalia, will travel from Buckingham Palace to Parliament to unveil the new government's legislative agenda.
"We don't know when Brexit talks start". May should be able to use these two set-piece events to shape the country's future.
It is even unclear whether May will be Prime Minister by this time next week. "That's what I'm doing, forming a Government", she said.
So who is really in charge?
May insisted she would not be deflected from delivering her vision of a clean Brexit, while working to overhaul the United Kingdom economy and crack down on terrorism - a reference to the two attacks that marked the election campaign. They don't want to be thinking about the economic ramifications of the various scenarios.
When May called the election in April, she did so with the Conservatives riding high in the polls, and the pound had surged on expectations that a big majority for the Conservatives would allow her to quell the so-called euroskeptics in her parliamentary ranks.
Michael Fallon, the Defense Secretary who, for now, remains loyal, served notice Sunday that the PM had to start being more consensual when he said: "We're going to see more collective government".
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An alliance, at what cost?
They formed part of May's small inner circle and were blamed by many Conservatives for the party's lackluster campaign and unpopular election platform, which alienated older voters with its plan to take away a winter fuel allowance and make them pay more for long-term care.
In return, the DUP is likely to ask for more money to be spent on Northern Ireland, and other specific concessions.
Corbyn believes that without an outright majority s May's position is vulnerable and he intends to oppose the Queen's Speech in an attempt to bring down her administration. That power is now lost.
It is too early to say with any certainty what the change from a majority to minority government will mean to Brexit. That is why the European Union wants the talks to go smoothly.
Ministers have urged May to put forward a more "pragmatic" vision for Brexit rather than "ideological", one that it less virulently anti-EU.
SCULLY: We now have a deeply uncertain situation with regard to the British government, and it is extremely hard to see what sort of, you know, progress can be made in these talks.
Davidson and the 13 Scottish Conservative MPs are travelling to Westminster Monday to underline their significance: without these seats May would have no chance of forming a government with anyone. Blushing, the pastor's daughter said the worst thing she could think of was running through a farmer's field of crops as a child.
He also insisted he had no ambition on taking the top job, telling Good Morning Britain: "I am not interested".
"This is no longer a question just for Government", a senior minister told the Standard.
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