"I told her that there were a number of things that count to me more than the party".
"From hubris to humiliation", said the left-leaning Guardian. Now, if Theresa May really is going to sign up her party for a parliamentary arrangement of support for the Democratic Unionists, that appears to fundamentally undermine the entire basis of the Northern Ireland peace process.
Several Labour MPs, such as Yvette Cooper, Angela Eagle and Chuka Umunna, have said they would serve in the shadow cabinet despite past criticism of Corbyn's leadership.
May's party won 318 seats, eight short of the 326 they needed for an outright majority. May campaigned to get a larger majority, but now Britain has a hung Parliament, meaning that no party has enough seats to form a government.
"She might start off doing that, but the Conservatives might well replace her mid-stream", he said.
The Conservative leader has been warned that her days are numbered after calling Thursday's vote three years early, only to lose her majority in parliament. Instead, her authority has been diminished.
She now risks more opposition to her Brexit plans from inside and outside her party.
"Bringing people together doesn't necessarily mean that the people who have been absolutely fantastic getting moved out of post", the source said.
The British government doesn't have long to ink a deal.
"I will now form a government - a government that can provide certainty and lead Britain forward at this critical time for our country", she said.
A stream of senior lawmakers entered May's 10 Downing St. office Sunday afternoon, to learn what roles they had been given in government.
The 10 DUP MPs could prove crucial in supporting the Conservatives on key votes.
Since any deal is not expected to involve a formal coalition, such talks may not hold up the formation of government.
United Kingdom opposition Labour Party says will seek to form minority government
Charles Grant, director of the London-based Centre for European Reform warned that the result would change little for the EU. May had unexpectedly called the snap election seven weeks ago, even though no vote was due until 2020.
"Do your best to avoid a "no deal" as result of 'no negotiations",' Donald Tusk, leader of the EU's ruling council, wrote in a tweet. In Kensington, an overwhelmingly Conservative seat - but also overwhelmingly anti-Brexit - the vote was so close that recounting was suspended at 8 a.m. on Friday so that election officials could go home and rest.
The Conservatives and the DUP are set to agree a written "programme for government", as the party's two most senior Westminster leaders fly to London to hammer out a deal.
The DUP, which Mrs May referred to as her "friends", was non-committal in its initial remarks.
DUP leader Arlene Foster said she would start talks on propping up the Conservative party, declaring that keeping Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom would be "our guiding star".
After winning his own seat in north London, Mr Corbyn said Mrs May's attempt to win a bigger mandate had backfired.
She inherited a 17-seat majority in the Commons, but called the snap vote to take advantage of opinion polls putting her on course for a landslide. U.K. Independence Party said "Theresa May has put Brexit in jeopardy". The main opposition Labour Party took 262.
"We need a government that can act", EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told German broadcaster Deutschlandfunk.
He argued if voters had wanted to reverse the result of last June's Brexit referendum, they would have voted for Liberal Democrat, who called for a second referendum.
But there was little sympathy from some other Europeans.
The EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, complained that "we still don't know the British position in the negotiations on Brexit". Her predecessor, David Cameron, first asked British voters to decide in 2016 whether to leave the EU.
German conservative Markus Ferber, an European Union lawmaker involved in discussions on access to European Union markets for Britain's financial sector, was scathing.
Because Corbyn has joined efforts to halt British and USA military adventures in Iraq, Libya, Syria and elsewhere, and because he was the first to invite Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein to speak in Parliament decades ago, the Tories have baited him as a friend of the Irish Republican Army, of Hamas and Hezbollah, besides being a flaming Marxist who supports LGBTQ rights.
SCULLY: We now have a deeply uncertain situation with regard to the British government, and it is extremely hard to see what sort of, you know, progress can be made in these talks.
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