Both parties expressed interest in forming the next government.
UK's main broadcasters were reporting sources had told them May would not be quitting in the wake of the shock result. The DUP said only that it would enter talks.
"I don't think the Conservative Government is stable, I don't think the prime minister is stable". Many Labour and Lib Dem voters will be frustrated that they're less socially liberal than the Conservative Party. The Conservative party was hoping to gain some ground in Parliament but in fact lost some seats.
Clinging to power, May said the Tories would form a minority government with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, which won 10 seats.
But May, facing scorn for running a lacklustre campaign, was determined to hang on. She will now need to decide whether to resign or try to form a new government.
"I'm afraid we ran a pretty terrible campaign", Soubry said.
With the complex talks on the divorce from the European Union due to start in 10 days, it was unclear what their direction would now be and if the so-called "Hard Brexit" taking Britain out of a single market could still be pursued.
Mr Osborne, who was sacked from the Cabinet by Mrs May when she took office last July, told ITV: "Clearly if she's got a worse result than two years ago and is nearly unable to form a government then she I doubt will survive in the long-term as Conservative party leader".
Meanwhile a buoyant Mr Corbyn called on the Prime Minister to step down, saying she should "go and make way for a government that is truly representative of this country". 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.
"We don't know when Brexit talks start".
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But there was little sympathy from some other Europeans. When Britain has had a hung parliament, coalitions were formed quickly. Mind you, despite the substantial reversal of fortunes for the SNP, whose share of the vote north of the border declined from 50 per cent to 37 per cent, politics north of the border is still a long way from having returned to the regular patterns of a two-party system.
Juncker said he hoped there would be no further delays, and that the result of the United Kingdom general election would not have a "major impact on the negotiations we are desperately waiting for".
"The irony of this is that Theresa May is calling this a certainty government and talking about how it's delivering certainty", said Brian Klaas, a fellow in comparative politics at the London School of Economics.
The result - flagged by some analysts as the worst possible election outcome due to uncertainty - caused the pound to fall as much as 2.5 percent to $1.2635 in early European trade, its lowest level since May called the election on April 18. The Prime Minister will only be forced to resign if it becomes clear that she will not be able to obtain a majority through a coalition or loose alliances.
Talks with European Union leaders were due to start in less than two weeks and those meetings may now need to be delayed, further eroding the time that Britain has to clinch a deal before it leaves the bloc in March 2019. But her campaign unravelled after a major policy u-turn on care for the elderly, while Corbyn's old-school socialist platform and more impassioned campaigning style won wider support than anyone had foreseen.
In the late stages of the campaign, Britain was hit by two Islamist militant attacks in less than two weeks that killed 30 people in Manchester and London, temporarily shifting the focus onto security issues.
By morning, pressure was mounting on May, including from within her own party.
Even in that scenario, May's job would still be in jeopardy and uncertainty would surround the future course of Brexit.
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