Britain’s May still in talks with DUP on power deal

While May’s top team has been left unchanged, she will have to fill gaps in her ministerial team after nine junior ministers lost their seats in what has been characterised as a disastrous election night for the ruling party, with the shock results going against every pre-election opinion poll forecast and the Jeremy Corbyn-led Opposition Labour faring far better than predicted.

The Times of London said in an editorial that “the election appears to have been, among other things, a rejection of the vague but harshly worded prospectus for Brexit for which Mrs”.

“The idea that the British government could be taking sides, having been the guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement and the subsequent peace agreements is really troubling”, she told Sky News.

May’s position seems safe for the near future because Britain must start negotiations later this month on leaving the European Union, but most British newspapers agreed Saturday that she is only just clinging on.

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after a church service in Sonning, Britain June 11, 2017.

Forget their electioneering scaremongering of a coalition of chaos – they are now the party of crackpots.

“Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has already called on May to resign, saying ‘Politics has changed” as Britons had rejected her policies of “austerity”.

His comments were echoed by his Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who said another election was “inevitable” given how precarious the Prime Minister’s hold on power is.

Downing Street initially said an outline agreement on a “confidence and supply” arrangement had been reached with the DUP which will be put to the Cabinet for discussion on Monday. But I think the problem is this – that Theresa May, to get Brexit through the House of Commons, is going to have to pass, I don’t know, maybe 20 big laws and maybe thousands of minor laws to extricate Britain from the European Union. And maybe – I was speaking to one minister today who said effectively, Brexit is a dead duck.

In a surprise move, Michael Gove was appointed environment and agriculture minister less than a year after the prime minister sacked him as justice minister.

Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson indicated she wanted to see a fresh approach to Brexit by seeking a consensus across parties. Even the Conservative Party is split between hard-line Brexiteers and former Remainers. “We want a country that works for everyone”. “Let’s get on with the job”, he tweeted.

The objective of holding early elections was to have a strong mandate and the approval of the people before starting negotiations for “BREXIT”. The BBC reported that the speech would be pushed back a few days.

In response to the earlier Downing Street statement, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron called on Mrs May to make the details of the deal public “immediately”.

May’s Conservatives won 318 seats in the election, falling short of the 326 required for an absolute majority.

The DUP wants no extension to Northern Ireland’s limitations on terminations, which restrict the procedure to when a woman’s life is at risk or there is a permanent or serious risk to her mental or physical health. This, in effect, will be a vote of confidence in Theresa May’s government and the first test of any deal with the DUP.

He told the BBC that if another election was called, he would be ready.

The Protestant unionist party also had links with outlawed paramilitary groups during the years of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”. May said that he would bring “considerable experience” to the post. What can not be ignored though is the growing nationalism in Scotland and Northern Ireland.