Britain's May to form new government with Northern Irish party

Dogus sharply closed the gap on the sitting member of parliament from Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives in the Cities of London and Westminster constituency - home to Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and the British capital's financial centre.

This is disappointing for Prime Minister Theresa May, who chose to call an early election to try to strengthen her hand in talks with the European Union on Brexit.

On Friday, Ms. May tried to put on a courageous face on her circumstances, insisting that she plans to continue on as Prime Minister.

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.

This was not the first example of such delusional politics though. The Queen, as she has done for over six decades, agreed with her prime minister. He paid for it with his political career.

President Trump stands with British Prime Minister Theresa May on January 27 in the Oval Office of the White House. We see the election outcome as a United Kingdom domestic issue and don't expect broader ramifications for global markets. The comfortable Tory lead in opinion polls encouraged her. An opposition Labour Party, in apparent disarray with a leader from its hard-left wing, Jeremy Corbyn, appeared to her as an additional reason. The opportunist in her thought that this was a safe gamble.

The problem is that, even if May wanted to soften her approach to Brexit (and there is no evidence that she does), she now lacks the authority to stand up to hard Brexiteers on her own benches and in the Conservative-supporting press.

Speaking during a visit to Mexico, Mrs Merkel ended her brief period of "polite" restraint from commenting on Mrs May's catastrophic poll.

Ordinary citizens do not like to be subjected to elections repeatedly.

Last summer, when Clinton was favored to defeat Trump, The Pew Research Center asked Britons how much confidence they had in the Republican candidate.

British Prime Minister Theresa May was picking up the pieces today after her Conservative Party lost its parliamentary majority in yesterday's election. Should this turn out to be so, this untended bonus will one of the limited positive results of an unfortunate election.

May to go. "It is simply inconceivable that the Prime Minister can begin the Brexit negotiations in just two weeks' time", said Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, which won 12 seats and also doesn't support Ms.

Hitting out at government spending cuts, "Liar Liar GE2017" by Captain SKA stitched together samples of May's speeches with a chorus of "She's a liar liar, no you can't trust her".

But May, facing scorn for running a lacklustre campaign, was determined to hang on.

The source also said that while May stuck to the campaign discipline dictated by her election team, the Labour leader was kept "front and centre" of Labour's campaign, holding public rallies and taking questions from all comers.

For many British voters, the feeling after the country's third major vote in as many years was weariness. A cosy relationship with the source of Wahabi Salafism, and the use of these arms in Yemen, where the humanitarian crisis is worsening, produced some disenchantment within younger voters.

The two terrorist attacks in the last fortnight were bad enough in terms of timing - the fact that some of the terrorists involved in the last two attacks had been on the radar screen of the UK's security agencies added to May's woes. Corbyn, on the other hand, ran a surprisingly robust campaign. The British electorate has demonstrated that Brexit is not the only issue on its mind. One employee she fired edited four editions of the Evening Standard on Friday, each of them more ferocious than the last.

Puri served as India's ambassador to Britain and permanent representative to the United Nations, both in Geneva and NY.