N.Ireland’s DUP says talks ongoing with PM May’s Conservatives

Downing St. says the Cabinet will discuss the agreement Monday.

“I think it’s pretty clear who won this election. They want to see government providing that certainty and stability”, she said. “I believe that’s important”.

The heroine of the Conservative campaign, Scottish leader Ruth Davidson, signalled her opposition by tweeting a link to a same-sex marriage lecture she gave a year ago.

Under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party envisioned nationalising mail, rail, and energy firms.

She said that the poor showing meant that she would need to “reflect” on voters’ appetite for a new referendum. Who are these people, and how likely is she to be able to form a government with their backing?

The result has demolished May’s political authority, and she has also lost her two top aides, sacrificed in a bid to save their leader from being toppled by a furious Conservative Party.

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. “That’s not a matter for me”, she said.

Pressure is now also coming from the public.

He said the party’s commanding lead in the polls of 20 percentage points at the start of the election period dramatically narrowed after the launch of the Conservatives’ manifesto, which he said was “mean-spirited” in its call for a cut funding for children’s school lunches and to charge the elderly more for their own care.

Senior party figures have cautioned against any immediate leadership challenge, saying it would cause only further disruption as Britain prepares to start talks with Brussels as early as June 19. His party “didn’t win the election”, Corbyn says, but he is prepared to continue resisting the Conservative agenda – especially what’s known as “hard Brexit“, a clean break with the European Union and departure from its single market system.

Ms Davidson telephoned the Prime Minister and demanded assurances that she was not planning to ditch Tory commitments to gay rights in return for DUP votes in the Commons.

“Theresa May is a dead woman walking”.

The politicians who’ve felt the wrath of voters include Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who clings to her seat by just 300 votes. But she can’t hide from those Tory MPs who are now turning on her.

While the pound’s move is significant, it is far less striking than that seen in the aftermath of the Brexit vote last June, when it plunged more than 10%.

Some senior Tories had made the removal of Hill and Timothy a condition for continuing to support May, who has vowed to remain prime minister despite the Conservatives losing their overall majority in Parliament.

Whoever ends up becoming Britain’s new prime minister faces a daunting five years in office, with the negotiations of the country’s withdrawal from the European Union topping the list of priorities.

Mrs May’s decision to seek a deal with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and the role of her two closest advisers in the faltering election campaign drew criticism in Tory ranks.

The result was a hung parliament, with the Conservatives as the largest party seeking to form either a formal coalition, or a “confidence and supply” arrangement in which a smaller party or parties provide support on passing key legislation.

“We want to make sure that Brexit is properly introduced and we will be the effective and possibly sole voice in parliament from Northern Ireland on Brexit”, Ian Paisley Jr, a DUP member of parliament, told BBC television.

Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom where same-sex marriage is not legal.

I think, frankly, she should have resigned and maybe wanted to resign.

“Northern Ireland is Brexit collateral damage”, said Martin McGuinness, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, and a leader of the Irish republican party, Sinn Fein.