Many believe the results of the 2017 general elections will also impact Britain's exit from the 27-nation bloc, as the main reason behind calling for sudden elections was to strengthen May's hands in parliament to negotiate with Brussels and pass necessary legislation. "But instead, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party have put up much more of a fight than anybody was anticipating".
British newspapers summed it up in a word: "Mayhem".
Prime Minister Theresa May got into her armored Jaguar mid-morning Friday and, with her husband Philip, was driven to Buckingham Palace, where she told the Queen that she would form a new government.
"I obviously wanted a different result last night", a grim-faced May acknowledged, promising she would "reflect on what happened". The results showed Conservatives winning 318 seats in a House of Commons where 326 seats are needed for the barest of majorities.
A strong showing for Labour in the election was capped when the party snatched the final seat to declare, Kensington, by just 20 votes.
"We want there to be a government".
Outside No 10 Downing Street, she spoke about "fulfilling the promise of Brexit" over the next five years, working with "friends and allies" in the Democratic Unionist Party.
Cutting a deal with the DUP, which won 10 seats, may not be straightforward.
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, tweeted a link to a speech she had made about same-sex marriage - something the DUP opposes.
May's miscalculation may also cost her with her colleagues, who could press for a new leader.
Dan Fried, a former State Department assistant secretary for Europe who is now at the Atlantic Council, said there are parallels between this week's British election and the 2016 US presidential contest.
Those "miscalculations" were ex-Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to call a referendum on leaving the European Union, and May's snap vote.
The Brexit discussions are due to start on June 19.
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Her office said later that the key finance, foreign, Brexit, interior and defence ministers would remain unchanged.
"That's going to make it hard for the European Union 27 because they're going to want to know who they're talking to and what their policy is".
In the Conservative Party, recriminations were immediate and stinging. "And that's unfortunate, because there are things going on in the world where we could use their help, especially diplomatically, but the prime minister now doesn't have the credibility". But I would like to make clear that the weird media reports about my own role in the policy's inclusion are wrong: "it had been the subject of many months of work within Whitehall, and it was not my personal pet project", Timothy wrote on the Conservative Home website.
Facing demands to quit after her electoral gamble failed, May on Friday scheduled an early weekend meeting of her governing circle in an apparent bid to reassert authority and project stability.
The election's biggest victor was Corbyn, who confounded expectations that his left-wing views made him electorally toxic. A buoyant Corbyn piled on pressure for May to resign, saying people have had enough of austerity politics and cuts in public spending. It drew strong support from young people, who appeared to have turned out to vote in bigger-than-expected numbers. "They didn't want to leave the EU".
Page said Corbyn, a lifelong left-wing activist who has spent decades speaking to crowds, was underestimated as a campaigner.
Turnout figures by age have not yet been released, but Ipsos MORI said 77 percent of people 24 and younger planned to vote in this election, compared with 55 percent during the last election two years ago.
"I told her that there were a number of things that count to me more than the party".
"I voted with my heart and my head".
"From hubris to humiliation", said the left-leaning Guardian.
The gap narrowed over the seven-week election as May was criticized for a lackluster campaign amid a series of missteps, most importantly a proposal to force elderly people to pay for more of their care. And the British government sends money to Northern Ireland.
It is unclear what role the attacks and their aftermath played in the election result.
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