UK Prime Minister Theresa May will meet Queen Elizabeth II on Friday in order to seek permission to form a government despite her Conservative Party's failure to secure a majority vote in the nation's general election.
In the most dramatic result of the night, the Irish republican party won Foyle - which mainly comprises the city of Londonderry - by just 169 votes, taking the seat from the moderate nationalist Social Democratic and Labour party.
May asked Britain's Queen Elizabeth for permission to form a new government today after an election debacle that saw her Conservative Party lose its parliamentary majority days before talks on Britain's European Union departure are due to begin.
Tim Fallon's Liberal Democrats have ruled out forming a coalition again, presumably because the party got its fingers burnt the last time.
"She is playing fast and loose, on Brexit; on Margaret Thatcher's greatest achievement, the single market; and now Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's greatest achievement, which is the peace in Northern Ireland", he said.
DUP leader Arlene Foster told Sky News she would meet Ms May on Tuesday.
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Beyond the Conservatives setback, the polls delivered a number of upsets, with two senior SNP figures Angus Robertson and Alex Salmond losing their seats. "In particular, their experience of peace making in Northern Ireland makes them wary of global interference which is one-sided or prescriptive".
While always striving for the "best deal" for Northern Ireland and its people, Foster said her party would always have the best interests of the United Kingdom at heart.
The British province's largest party was among the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for Brexit and wants Britain to leave the EU's customs union, but its manifesto focused heavily on maintaining the benefits of membership. The plan was to use the election to gain more seats in Parliament and push for stronger support for May's Brexit negotiations.
Chancellor Philip Hammond, meanwhile, is reported to have told the Prime Minister that she needed to put "jobs first" in negotiating a new deal with Brussels, in comments seen as a coded attack on her focus on controlling immigration.
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