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.
Opposition party leaders were also quick to call for her resignation, including the Liberal Demo- crats' Tim Farron, who said: "We will now have a government that is weaker and less stable at a time when we are about to embark on the most hard and complex negotiations in our history".
May on Friday resisted calls to quit - calls that came even from senior figures in her party.
Mrs May, who inherited the leadership after David Cameron resigned after the Brexit referendum result, had called the election seeking a bigger majority to give her a mandate to pursue her Brexit agenda. "I thought surrealism was a Belgian invention", he said, adding that the result would "make already complex negotiations even more complicated", and that "this is not only about the United Kingdom, but also about the future of Europe".
The Conservatives held 330 seats in the last Parliament, compared with 229 for Labour, 54 for the Scottish National Party and nine for the Liberal Democrats.
Today, Corbyn said that he had "changed the face of British politics" and that politics "isn't going back into the box where it was before".
"She's staying, for now", the source told Reuters.
May had hoped the election would focus on Brexit, but that never happened, as both the Conservatives and Labour said they would respect voters' wishes and go through with the divorce.
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British voters delivered a stunning political upset when they just failed to return the Conservatives with an overall majority in the 350 seat House of Commons. We want to do it quickly, respecting the calendar, ' she said in comments reported by Sky News.
The Tory veteran has said she has no intention of standing down and has been informally backed by the DUP. The leader of the DUP confirmed that talks are happening. Each seat in Parliament represents a constituency (a district).
With talks due to start in Brussels on June 19, Mr Tusk said it was their "urgent task" to get on with the negotiations in "the best possible spirit". Prior to the election, there was speculation that May would use the opportunity to reshuffle the cabinet; last night it was unclear if May would survive the election results.
But EU budget commissioner Guenther Oettinger said May was now likely to be a "weak" partner.
There was little sympathy for May from some Europeans. A "soft" Brexit would remove Britain as a member of the European Union, but permit it to remain in the single market. "Obviously at my end of the (age) spectrum I'm more interested in things like pensions and so forth, NHS health care - plus schooling, those are really my main concerns".
But May vowed to "fulfil the promise of Brexit", in a statement outside her Downing Street office after seeking permission from the head of state Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government. Other Conservatives have emphasized the importance of migration controls, something the European Union says is incompatible with open trade.
"The mandate she has got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence", he said.
"It will be hard to govern and it could mean another election later in the year". The second is that one party (usually the largest) forms a minority government, in which it relies on the support of other parties to pass bills on an ad-hoc basis.
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