Resisting calls for her resignation, Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday vowed to form a minority government with the support of a Northern Ireland party after a hung Parliament deprived her Conservative Party of its parliamentary majority.
Under fire after calling the snap election and then losing her majority, May on Friday said she would get on with the job of governing and would select her new cabinet of ministers shortly.
Johnson added the Conservatives needed to think about lessons from the election, but not via newspapers.
The results left the Tories 12 short of the required majority and this will embolden anti- Brexit parties.
DUP leader Arlene Foster says she has spoken to Theresa May this morning.
EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, tweeted early Friday that negotiations should start "when the United Kingdom is ready".
The Liberal Democrats said May should be "ashamed" of carrying on.
"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 on BBC Question Time.
She said she "obviously wanted a different result" and felt "sorry" for colleagues who lost their seats.
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The last time this happened was in 1996, when John Major's minority government was toppled just months after its formation. The leader of the Democratic Unionists has pledged to exercise the party's enhanced influence at Westminster responsibly.
Her soul was AWOL already but this particular deal with Norn Ireland Hillbillies the DUP surely condemns that soul if it ever should turn up.
Ruth Davidson has been told by the prime minister that any Conservative deal with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will not affect LGBTI rights. But the ballot-box humiliation has seriously - and possibly mortally - wounded her leadership just as Britain is about to begin complex exit talks with the European Union.
Liam Kennedy, 64, a history professor at Queen's University, said the result had "crystallised the reality of politics in Northern Ireland".
The pair formed part of May's small inner circle and were blamed by many Conservatives for the party's lackluster campaign and unpopular election platform.
An online petition condemning Theresa May's plans to govern in coalition with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has received more than 500,000 signatures in one day.
Notable women MPs who retained their seats include May, Conservative Home Secretary Amber Rudd - who kept her seat by a razor-thin margin after several recounts - Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, who retains her party's sole seat in Brighton, and SNP's Mhairi Black, who became the UK's youngest MP when she won her seat in 2015 at the age of 20.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said she had lost all legitimacy and called on her to stand aside and allow him to form an alternative administration, declaring: "We are ready to serve". And it's this friction within the Tory Party that people are hoping to play upon - by attempting to create a coalition between concerned voters and nervous Conservative MPs.
SIEGEL: George Parker, political editor of the Financial Times in London, thanks for talking with us today.
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