The ballot-box humiliation has seriously - and possibly mortally - wounded May's leadership just as Britain is about to begin complex exit talks with the European Union.
In a night that redrew the political landscape once again, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) - instrumental in campaigning for Brexit - lost millions of voters, prompting its leader Paul Nuttall to quit.
The Tories are eight short of a majority on 318, with Mrs May hoping to thrash out a "confidence and supply" pact with Northern Ireland's socially hardline Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and its 10 MPs.
"The success of the Labour Party winning more seats than expected was because they tapped into anxiety over public spending cuts since 2010, anxiety over the state of National Health Service, and also concerns with youth voters over the amount of student debt and access to United Kingdom housing - two big issues".
Corbyn's newly energized Labour Party officially backs Brexit - since voters endorsed it in a referendum past year - but many important figures in the party advocate a much "softer" approach, and their views now may now carry sway.
"It was a disaster", he said.
It was always a long shot - "Kebab King" Ibrahim Dogus only stood as a Labour Party candidate in one of the richest parts of London to offer voters an alternative.
Martin Selmayr, senior aide to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, responded to the resignations by tweeting the word "bauernopfer" - German for the sacrifice of a pawn in chess.
A shock result in Britain's snap general election has resulted in a hung parliament in a major blow to Theresa May who wanted to boost the Conservatives majority in parliament.
In a final humiliation, the Conservatives lost the safe west London seat of Kensington, Britain's wealthiest constituency, to Labour by a mere 20 votes after a campaign that targeted the incumbent MP for her pro-Brexit stance.
Surprised by the U-turn, one former co-worker, Tony Smith, said last month that May must have "taken her time out and gone away to think about it" before making the decision.
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The Times of London said in an editorial that "the election appears to have been, among other things, a rejection of the vague but harshly worded prospectus for Brexit for which Mrs".
Students and staff at the institution, which bills itself as "the U.K.'s European university" because of its diverse population, also were anxious about how May was going to lead Britain out of the European Union, he added. "May's departure from Downing St.is remorseless".
After noon, May was driven from her official Downing Street residence to Buckingham Palace to ask Queen Elizabeth for permission to form a government - a formality under the British system.
For all of Labour's unexpected strength, much of the post-election focus is on the prime minister's weakness.
After the PM sent her Chief Whip Gavin Williamson to Belfast to negotiate a deal to keep the Conservatives in power, No. 10 said the DUP had agreed to the principles of an outline agreement.
The DUP was founded in the 1970s by the late firebrand preacher Ian Paisley, and in the 1980s was a key player in the "Save Ulster from Sodomy" campaign, which unsuccessfully fought against the legalization of gay sex.
DUP Leader Arlene Foster recently denied the party was homophobic.
"I could not care less what people get up to in terms of their sexuality". "When it becomes a matter for me is when people try to redefine marriage".
But the wooing of the DUP risks upsetting the political balance in Northern Ireland by aligning London more closely with the pro-British side in the divided province, where a power-sharing government with Irish nationalists is now suspended. The opposition Labor Party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, gained 32 seats. Less than a year after May was propelled into Downing Street following Britain's surprise referendum decision to leave the European Union, party insiders were placing bets on how long she could last.
"From hubris to humiliation", said the left-leaning Guardian, while the Times headline read: "May stares into the abyss".
But after a poor campaign and an unexpectedly stiff challenge from Labour, her plan went disastrously wrong. "I'm ecstatic", said 19-year-old Toby French, who is studying politics and global relations at the University of Kent, which has a Canterbury campus.
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