For Brussels, a concern with starting talks on such models would be that Brexit supporters might end up blocking them, raising the risk of time running out to get any deal: "Would you [.] 10 months later find that there was no real majority for that?" the official said.
But May, weakened by her election flop, opted to keep Hammond in his job along with other key ministers.
Since then there had been Assembly elections in March, followed by a series of negotiations, and then the British general election on June 8, which was again followed by talks on the DUP supporting the Conservative minority government in London.
A source in May's Conservative Party said talks continued on Friday.
After facing criticism for not meeting survivors on Thursday, May visited a hospital on Friday to speak to some of the people who escaped the fire.
We now know that at precisely 11:00 BST on Monday morning, nearly exactly a year after the Brexit referendum, the all important exit negotiations will begin. The DUP is one of the most socially conservative parties in Europe, having sought to maintain some of its strictest limits on abortion and consistently opposed gay marriage.
Almost a fifth of the UK's food and drink exports go to the Republic of Ireland and in March industry bodies from across the British food and drink sector wrote an open letter to various government departments calling for "frictionless" tariff-free trade with Ireland to continue post-Brexit.
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Mr Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, said there was no desire to punish the United Kingdom but "its accounts must be settled".
Chancellor Philip Hammond said the Government's priority in the negotiations should be to protect jobs, economic growth and prosperity.
And as leaders welcomed the new tone in London and talk of a "softer Brexit" that may be less disruptive than May's clean break with the single market and customs union, officials from at least some governments saw compromise on the British bill.
Speaking as he arrived for a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Luxembourg, Mr Hammond said: "As we go into that negotiation, my clear view - and I believe the view of the majority of people in Britain - is that we should prioritise protecting jobs, protecting economic growth and protecting prosperity as we enter those negotiations and take them forward".
Addressing her party on Monday after one of its most memorable electoral failures, May said she would take a broader, more consultative approach to the Brexit talks.
"We believe that the withdrawal process can not be concluded without the future relationship also being taken into account".
Earlier, Andrea Leadsom, leader of the House of Commons, said the government had agreed with Queen Elizabeth, who reads out the new government programme, that the "state opening of parliament will take place on June 21, 2017".
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