Beleaguered British Prime Minister Theresa May is working to fill out the ranks of her minority government after an election that proved disastrous for her Conservative Party and complicating for Britain's exit.
Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, who worked as joint chiefs of staff in Downing Street before heading up Theresa May's campaign in the snap General Election, are under fire for being involved in some of the campaign's biggest mistakes, according to reports.
The Conservative-backing Daily Telegraph newspaper had earlier warned: "Mrs May must accept that the result is an indictment of the furtive way she does business". Instead, the Thursday election saw the Conservatives lose seats and fall short of an outright majority, forcing May to seek an alliance (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/uk-election-so-what-is-a-hung-parliament-2017-06-08) with a small Northern Ireland party to remain in power.
She said the atmosphere was much better when the two aides were not in the room and hit out at Ms Hill's "crazy" ideas.
"But I would like to make clear that the freakish media reports about my own role in the policy s inclusion are wrong: it had been the subject of many months of work within Whitehall, and it was not my personal pet project".
Timothy also implicated the Conservative polling team, which included the former Barack Obama adviser Jim Messina, for failing to "notice the surge in Labour support, because modern campaigning techniques require ever-narrower targeting of specific voters".
Theresa May lost her two most powerful - and notorious - advisers yesterday as she fought to cling on to power at No 10.
"I take responsibility for my part in this election campaign".
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Ms Davidson, who became engaged to partner Jen Wilson in May 2016, told the BBC: "I was fairly straightforward with her (Mrs May) and I told her that there were a number of things that count to me more than the party".
May's courting of DUP has triggered criticism in the media and among members of her party, who have described DUP as anti-abortionist and regressive on LGBTI rights.
While Mr Timothy, 37, and Ms Hill, 44, were running operations at Tory HQ, Mrs May was sitting on her sofa at home in Berkshire watching the BBC coverage with her husband.
In a statement after returning from Buckingham Palace, where she received the Queen's permission to form a government, May shrugged off a growing backlash in the Conservative Party, and said she would provide the "certainty" the country needed, The Guardian reported.
Last December, Hill also told senior Conservative lawmaker Nicky Morgan to keep away from Downing Street after criticising the premier for her expensive leather pants.
Writing in the "Times", she said: "What I could never work out was whether May condoned their behaviour and turned a blind eye or didn t understand how destructive they both were".
Tory MP Tom Tugendhat said: "I joined a party that introduced equal marriage, backs civil rights and defends freedom of faith. What an utter mess from this shower".
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