Northern Ireland's DUP says talks ongoing with PM May's Conservatives

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Labour won 262 seats in the General Election, up from the 232 secured by Ed Miliband in 2015, but the Conservatives remain the largest party in Parliament. The party is a socially conservative pro-British Protestant group that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage and once appointed an environment minister who believes human-driven climate change is a myth.

"I don't think she does have a majority in the House of Commons for leaving the single market", said Anna Soubry, a Conservative member of parliament who campaigned ahead of last year's referendum for Britain to stay in the EU.

Speaking to Andrew Marr, Sir Michael also distanced himself from the DUP's conservative stance on social issues.

Following the deal, Prime Minister Theresa May will shape her new cabinet to form the new United Kingdom government next week.

The Times of London said in an editorial that "the election appears to have been, among other things, a rejection of the vague but harshly worded prospectus for Brexit for which Mrs".

"We can not go on with a period of great instability".

"It doesn't mean we now agree with all their views", he said.

"I just can't see how she can continue in any long-term way". Her weakened position in the party rules out big changes, and May's office has said that the most senior Cabinet members - including Treasury chief Philip Hammond, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Amber Rudd - will keep their jobs, but she is expected to shuffle the lower ranks of ministers. Tory MP Sarah Wollaston said the election result would "inevitably have consequences for our negotiating position given the need for Parliamentary agreement to the final deal on Brexit".

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But if Arlene Foster, Nigel Dodds and their small circle of advisers calculate that Mrs May is too wounded to lead a credible government, the DUP will not be shy about making that explicit. "We want to do what is right for the whole of the United Kingdom".

The strength of any deal looks set to be tested when the Commons meets, with Jeremy Corbyn vowing to try to bring down the Government by defeating Mrs May in Parliament and insisting: "I can still be prime minister".

"I can still be Prime Minister".

"We will welcome any such deal being agreed, as it will provide the stability and certainty the whole country requires as we embark on Brexit and beyond. It's important to make that clear", he told the newspaper.

She said Labour had to be ready for another election "at any time" and warned the party not to "rest on its laurels", saying it had to work on how to win back more seats from the Conservatives.

Labour will urge other parties to support its speech with the aim of forming an alternative government.

"It is quite possible there will be an election later this year or early next year and that might be a good thing because we can not go on with a period of great instability", Corbyn told the BBC.

But he said his party would seek to vote down May's Queen's Speech, or program for government, when she presented it to parliament, and another national election might be needed to break the deadlock. The 68-year-old galvanized support from many young voters, who turned up to vote Labour in unusually high numbers on Thursday.

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