The DUP may provide the missing votes.
May had planned to form an alliance with the Northern Irish political party and had issued a statement saying they had made a deal.
However, it's not just the support of another party May needs to ensure.
Senior figures from the Tories have flown to Belfast to begin talks.
On a night of high drama, Mrs May - who went into the election with a majority of 17 - fell eight seats short of an overall majority. The main opposition Labour Party surpassed expectations by winning 262.
They were replaced by Gavin Barwell, a former housing minister who lost his seat in the election.
Owen Paterson, a former Northern Ireland Secretary, said: "You might get a debate I suppose on further reduction of abortion times as medical science advances".
The Conservatives will remain in power until a decision about the next government is taken.
"Our position is very clear, we want a jobs-first Brexit, therefore the most important thing is the trade deal with Europe", he said.
"It was a disaster", he said.
Foster told BBC Radio Ulster: "It will be hard for her to survive given that she was presumed at the start of the campaign, which seems an awfully long time ago, to come back with maybe a hundred, maybe more, in terms of her majority".
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Green Party deputy leader Amelia Womack said the DUP's stance on abortion has left women in Northern Ireland in "dire circumstances" and described the potential tie-up with the Tories as a "coalition of cruelty".
The arrangement with the DUP will make governing easier, but it makes some Conservatives uneasy.
"I sought, and to be fair to the prime minister, received a categoric assurance that in talking to the DUP that there would be no suggestion of any rollback on LGBTI rights in the rest of the United Kingdom", she said.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the British Isles where same-sex marriage remains outlawed.
"The Prime Minister has tonight spoken with the DUP to discuss finalising a confidence and supply deal when Parliament returns next week", a Downing Street spokeswoman said.
Party leader Foster is expected to seek concessions in a new government.
"I could not care less what people get up to in terms of their sexuality".
She said: "I want to make sure that Scottish businesses can trade as freely as possible with the other 27 countries in the European Union as well as the other countries around the world". "When it becomes a matter for me is when people try to redefine marriage".
"The Government will deliver on the will of the British people by taking the United Kingdom out of the European Union".
Corbyn said Labour was ready to lead a minority government.
The last count of the election saw Labour overturn a 7,000 majority in Kensington, London, where Emma Dent Coad saw off Tory incumbent Victoria Borwick by just 20 votes after a third recount.
"We will talk to whoever is the largest party, it looks like the Conservatives".
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