Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and other leading Brexiteers are insisting there can be no "backsliding" from the government's original Brexit objectives. A lacklustre campaign saw her high approval rating slip away, and support for her "hard Brexit" strategy - pulling out of the European single market and customs union - now hangs in the balance. May hopes with the backing of the DUP her Conservatives will again command the majority they lost in last week's election.
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson, an independent-minded figure within May's party who actually achieved a measure of success in the election, beating back the anti-Brexit Scottish Nationalists, isn't likely to lend her 13-strong parliamentary group's support to the hardliners: They are unpopular in Scotland.
YouGov says that although the country is split down the middle over whether leaving the European Union was the right or wrong decision, there is still a majority who think Brexit should happen.
But Mr Davis insisted the United Kingdom still wants to negotiate its future trade relationship with the European Union "alongside" talks on the terms for Brexit, which he said was the process set out in Article 50 of the European Union treaties.
Speaking as he arrived for a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Luxembourg, he 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".
One analysis of the vote's outcome points to a "softer" Brexit, one that leaves Britain with some degree of privileged trade access to the EU's massive, tariff-less single market.
Rishi Khosla, the chief executive of OakNorth Bank, said the uncertainty around the minority government will hurt the economy for the next couple of years, but in the end it will be a better result for Britain.
British newspapers had previously reported a rift between May and Hammond and that she had planned to sack him after the election if she had won a larger majority.
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The Treasury said Hammond would return to the issues he was planning to discuss in the near future. Political turmoil has caused business leaders to put investments on hold.
The latest warning sign came Thursday: Retail sales fell by 1.2% in May, compared with April.
"I talk to politicians from every party in order to make sure that we get the right approach", he told the show.
The EU could demand that Britain pay a large upfront exit bill.
Mr Barnier, whose department has spent months preparing for Brexit, said: "I can't negotiate with myself".
But she has also attempted to protect herself from criticism by anti-EU backbenchers, handing jobs to Brexiteers like Michael Gove and Steve Baker.
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