That calculation backfired spectacularly on Thursday as voters stripped the Conservatives of their parliamentary majority.
"It's been a pleasure to serve in government, and a pleasure to work with such an excellent prime minister", Hill wrote in a shorter statement Saturday. If she remains prime minister if her famously regicidal party does not defenestrate her immediately her majority will be neither strong nor stable, particularly because her party is riven by divisions over Brexit, too. She ignored younger people, who preferred to stay in the European Union a year ago and who now prefer the Labour Party to the Tories by a huge margin 63 per cent to 27 per cent.
That means it will support a Conservative minority government on key votes in parliament without a formal coalition deal.
I asked my local party members early on Friday morning for their views.
The DUP, whose 10 seats would allow the government to get measures through Parliament, is a socially conservative pro-British Protestant group that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage and includes both environmentalists and climate-change deniers among its senior ranks.
Thursday's election result has cast doubt on Britain's position in the upcoming Brexit negotiations, scheduled to begin on June 19.
While Evans is not among MPs calling for May to resign, he slammed her style of governance as tone deaf to her own Cabinet ministers and MPs, who he said were better in touch with voters on the ground.
"For instance, if London were to stay in the customs union, then it would not have to renegotiate all trade agreements", he told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper.
The British pound tumbled on Friday against the USA dollar and the euro before stabilising, down 1.7 and 1.4 percent against the two currencies respectively.
May confirmed Friday that senior ministers would remain in their posts, despite rumours that she had been ready to sack finance minister Philip Hammond following a clash over her Brexit strategy.
Brexit talks with European Union negotiators are scheduled to begin in 10 days.
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On Thursday, Comey will testify before the same Senate committee, where he will undoubtedly be asked some of the same questions. Burr says. "At no time should you be in a position where you come to Congress without an answer", he said.
"From hubris to humiliation", said the left-leaning Guardian.
But Elmar Brok, a German conservative and the European Parliament's top Brexit expert, told the Ruhr Nachrichten newspaper that the talks would now be more complicated.
"Now, of course, if she's [May] got to be constantly making deals throughout this parliament, or indeed if she falls and there's a lot of negotiations or a lot of discussion as to whether she'll be leading this Conservative minority government. One of them is country, one of the others is LGBTI rights", she told the BBC.
Jeremy Corbyn was pictured joining a children's football training session in Islington as one of his MPs said Labour missed an "open goal" to beat Theresa May and the Tories in the General Election.
May's authority over her party was shattered by the election result. "I want to reaffirm my ongoing support for the Conservative Party and its principles".
"We welcome this commitment, which can provide the stability and certainty the whole country requires as we embark on Brexit and beyond", the spokesperson said.
French doesn't think Brexit didn't really influence the outcome of the election for the Conservatives. "I will happily eat my new Brexit book if they do".
Managing that process will not be easy.
"The success of the Labour Party winning more seats than expected was because they tapped into anxiety over public spending cuts since 2010, anxiety over the state of National Health Service, and also concerns with youth voters over the amount of student debt and access to United Kingdom housing - two big issues".
She has said she favours retaining the greatest possible level of access to Europe's single market.
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