As May struggled to contain the fallout, her two closest aides resigned.
Lord Murphy said he could understand the DUP wanting to help the prime minister and "their view about being a United Kingdom party and all those things" but "we're right in the middle of negotiations to set up the assembly and executive in Belfast, it all collapsed before the general election".
"If Mrs May depends on the DUP... to form a government, it will be impossible for it to be even-handed", he wrote.
She seems secure for the immediate future, because senior Conservatives don't want to plunge the party into a damaging leadership contest.
The news came as May prepared to name the rest of her cabinet, after revealing Friday that her five most senior ministers would remain in their posts.
Either way, there was wide acknowledgment Saturday that May has effectively become a lame-duck leader in the wake of a vote that was supposed to be her moment of crowning glory, but ultimately became a stinging repudiation. "My generation are going to have to deal with the consequences, not them", said Marcus Hawley, a 21-year-old student who voted for Labour. She's taking us back to those times.
Mrs May is seeking a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party after losing her majority in Thursday's election. Senior figures in the party have called the issue a "red line" for power sharing talks at Stormont.
Katie Perrior, who quit as May's communications chief in April, said Timothy and Hill were "great street fighters but poor political leaders".
"I can still be prime minister".
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"Trying to make that change to Number 10 was more hard than she possibly anticipated, " Perrior said. The Daily Mail, an anti-immigrant, nationalist tabloid that has spent the past year cheering on May, published a photo of a shaken May along with the headline "Tories Turn on Theresa". She ignored the 48 percent of the country that did not vote for Brexit, calling them "citizens of nowhere".
But her party is deeply divided over what they want from Brexit and the result means British businesses still have no idea what trading rules they can expect in the coming years. Former minister Ed Vaizey confirmed to the BBC that Tories were discussing possible replacements.
As rumors swirled about plots to oust May, Johnson denied he was planning a leadership challenge.
"That's so 20th century, " he said.
The pound hit an eight-week low against the dollar and its lowest levels in seven months versus the euro before recovering slightly after May said she would form a government backed by her "friends" in the DUP. But that seems to have already changed. Conservative Party membership figures were just under 150,000 in December 2016.
Numerous MPs have since been forced to "eat humble pie" following his surprise performance in the polls, and when asked whether previous critics would be given a role in his top team, he said: "I'm the most generous person in the world". "The level of damage that she's done to her own brand is enormous". She ignored the anxiety that Brexit has created and the economic consequences that are now just beginning to bite.
If May does go, the timing will be critical.
She insisted she would press ahead with Brexit talks, which are to begin in 10 days. "I hope we never hold referendums on anything ever again", added pro-E.U. former Conservative finance minister Ken Clarke.
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