UK PM Theresa May strikes tentative deal with Northern Ireland party

Many others have been less vocal, but with 12 fewer Conservative seats in parliament than before the election, you can be sure many are smarting if not seething, meaning a leadership challenge could soon be on the cards.

Mrs May is seeking to rely on the Democratic Unionist Party’s 10 MPs to win key votes in Parliament.

“The opinion polls are tightening but the opinion polls in Britain are a bit unreliable”, said Mark Garnett, a politics professor at Lancaster University. I reached him via Skype.

“I take responsibility for the content of the whole manifesto, which I continue to believe is an honest and strong programme for government”, he said in a post for Conservative Home.

He stressed that the campaign led by May was rather disadvantageous for her and was driven by an internal political agenda rather than the Brexit talks, and that the elevated terrorist threat cost her the votes. Meanwhile, the Labour Party started the campaign looking as if it was maybe facing some sort of existential disaster. Some members of Parliament in May’s Tory party and the rival Labour Party favor a softer Brexit, in which the United Kingdom might maintain a much closer relationship with the EU.

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May’s two closest advisers, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, resigned on Saturday after taking responsibility for the election debacle for the Conservative Party which failed to get a simple majority.

MARTIN: We’re seeing that there are calls for Theresa May to resign. “Theresa May has lost credibility and leverage in her party, her country and across Europe”. From Labour? And is she likely to?

“I couldn’t think of better bedfellows than the DUP on that”.

Fallon said the government wanted a “new partnership with Europe that is careful about the trade we already do with Europe, that comes to some agreement on the immigration that we can accept from Europe”. He branded the election “foolish”, saying: “What a hubrish, foolish, politically naive election to call”.

A sense of turmoil has been rapidly accelerating among Brits since last week’s elections, which backfired on May and left her fighting tooth and nail for a position she had already won previous year.

Why? Back came the answer – she’s not up to the job.

The other big winners were Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) MPs.

“What the country needs more than ever is certainty”, she said. Their support base is overwhelmingly amongst Protestants who live in Northern Ireland, and it’s the largest single political party in Northern Ireland. But it is also deeply anxious that splitting from the European Union will mean a return to a hard border across Ireland that could create economic and even political problems. “GBPUSD fell more than 2% immediately after the exit poll and looks very vulnerable to further downside”.

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks watched by her husband Philip in 10 Downing street, London, as she addresses the press Friday, June 9, 2017 following an audience with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace w.

MARTIN: Well, so clearly there’s a lot to talk about.

“Just to be clear, we will act in the national interest”.

And in a phone call with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the PM attempted to show it’s business as usual by confirming she’ll start Brexit talks as planned in the “next couple of weeks”. So what happens now?

“I don’t think throwing us into a leadership battle at this moment in time, when we are about to launch into these hard negotiations, would be in the best interests of the country”, Evans said.