May appeared isolated after her two closest aides resigned, paying the price for a disastrous electoral performance that cost the prime minister her majority.
After visiting Queen Elizabeth II on Friday, a part of electoral procedure, May announced she would try to form a minority government supported by the Democratic Unionist Party, or DUP, from Northern Ireland.
Without a majority, she could be forced to seek consensus on the approach she takes, potentially by performing a U-turn on single market membership and protecting the economy at the expense of new immigration controls.
Several Conservative lawmakers have warned that May can not carry on indefinitely, after throwing away a 17-seat majority in the 650-seat House of Commons.
According to media accounts, internal pressure on May led to the resignation on Saturday of the Prime Minister's two co-chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, who have been blamed for their role in designing the Conservatives' campaign and the parliamentary setback. Their influence had increasingly angered senior ministers.
"We are ready to do everything we can to put our programme into operation, there isn't a parliamentary majority for anybody at the present time, the party that has lost in this election is the Conservative Party, the arguments the Conservative Party put forward in this election have lost".
The nursery worker said he was "angry" that Mrs May had done a deal with the DUP, although he admitted he did not initially know who they were.
"This is a very bad moment for the Conservative Party, and we need to take stock", Conservative lawmaker Anna Soubry said.
The DUP will prop up the Tories.
The turmoil engulfing May has increased the chance that Britain will fall out of the European Union in 2019 without a deal. No, Dunt said, but May's vision of a so-called "hard Brexit" - in which the United Kingdom would most likely leave the single European Union market, take full control over its borders, strike new trade deals and apply laws within its own borders - has been rejected. Beleaguered May is appointing new members of her government after several.
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.
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The Senate judiciary committee, meanwhile, sent a request to Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman for Comey's memos. Richman confirmed to multiple news outlets Thursday that he was the "friend" whom Comey enlisted to leak the memo to the press.
May said Brexit talks would begin on June 19 as scheduled, the same day as the formal reopening of parliament.
"I will always support the right for women to choose and access safe termination of pregnancy and will oppose any change to the legislation", she tweeted.
The push for Brexit was, however, powered by a more limited desire for economic distance from the European Union, which voters may have believed another leader could deliver.
This is the first time since the 1990s that Britain has a minority government, in which the governing party can not get measures though Parliament without outside support.
Britain's largely pro-Conservative press questioned whether May could remain in power.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has insisted "I can still be prime minister" as he vowed to fight Theresa May's attempt to run a minority government "all the way". One organiser led chants of "racist, sexist, anti-gay, the DUP has got to go". Former Conservative cabinet minister Owen Paterson, asked about her future, said: "Let's see how it pans out".
May had repeatedly ruled out the need for a new election before changing her mind.
The biggest victor was Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The Times newspaper's front page declared that Britain was "effectively leaderless" and the country "all but ungovernable". But I think the more problematic aspect of this arrangement - the Democratic Unionists agreed to support the conservatives on really major votes in Parliament.
In another sign of the dangers facing Mrs May, Sunday papers reported that Boris Johnson was either being encouraged to make a leadership bid in an effort to oust her, or actually preparing one - a claim dismissed as "tripe" by the Foreign Secretary.
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