British PM's days numbered as top aides quit?

Amid a febrile atmosphere among Tory MPs, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is reported to be preparing a new bid to become Prime Minister as Mrs May's grip on No.10 becomes increasingly fragile.

On Friday, May declared her intention to lead a government with the support of the Northern Ireland MPs of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) - describing the tie-up as a government of "certainty".

"We don't know when Brexit talks start". A Conservative government will, therefore, be one that is weaker and also more divided.

Newspaper headlines saw her as just clinging on. May had called the election to build upon her majority; instead, the party lost it. However, the Labour Party will not have enough numbers to form a majority coalition government even if supported by the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), Liberal Democrats, Green Party and Plaid Cymru.

Jeremy Corbyn said the government did not have any credibility to go forward and the Labour Party would do what it could to stop it.

He also said the public "do not want another election" and labelled Mrs May a "woman of extraordinary qualities".

May has confirmed five of her most senior ministers will remain in their pre-election roles, but has yet to announce whether there will be any changes to other jobs within her top team of ministers, known as the cabinet. Their core, central message was strong and stable leadership. She's meeting Conservative MPs today as she works to maintain party unity.

For now, though, Prime Minister May's keeping her stiff upper lip and pushing ahead.

The political turmoil comes a week before Britain is due to start negotiating the terms of its exit from the European Union in talks of unprecedented complexity that are supposed to wrap up by the end of March 2019, when Britain actually leaves.

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"Theresa May is a dead woman walking, it just remains to be seen how long she remains on death row", George Osborne, the former United Kingdom chancellor who was sacked by May past year, told the BBC on Sunday.

"Theresa May is a dead woman walking".

May also reappointed an old adversary - Michael Gove, a former rival for the Conservative leadership whom May fired from the Cabinet when she took office previous year.

"We are going to see, I hope, more collective decision-making in the cabinet".

The DUP is "likely to increase the pressure on Theresa May to secure a comprehensive free trade agreement" in place of its single market membership, said Stephen Booth of the Open Europe think tank.

Now that a hung parliament will exist with the Tories holding onto a slim majority overall, and only a governing capability under an alliance with Northern Ireland's DUP, political stability is very much in question.

The DUP and the Conservatives are working towards an arrangement which would allow the DUP to negotiate a fresh deal every time the government needs its support in the Commons.

A "confidence and supply arrangement" is a far looser deal than a formal coalition or pact.

However, many Tories are adamant that she can not lead them into another general election after her disastrous showing last week at the ballot box.

A snap survey conducted by the Conservative Home website revealed that 60 per cent of party members believe May should quit while just 37 per cent of the 1,500 members who took part said she should stay in her post. The DUP is strongly opposed to single-sex marriage and abortion, which is at odds with Conservative policies.

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May's two closest advisers, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, resigned on Saturday after taking responsibility for the election debacle for the Conservative Party which failed to get a simple majority.

Several Conservative lawmakers have warned that May can not carry on indefinitely, after throwing away a 17-seat majority in the 650-seat House of Commons.