After failing to secure a majority in the parliament in the snap election, Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to form a government with the backing of the Democratic Unionist Party. It was a humiliating outcome after an election that May had meant to strengthen her ahead of the Brexit push.
Instead, voters stripped the Conservatives of their parliamentary majority.
Meanwhile sources close to the Foreign Secretary dismissed reports about his leadership ambitions and suggested "someone is trying to make mischief". But Johnson said he backed May. Such moves helped draw in Labour voters who had initially been sceptical of him, as well as win support from within influential party figures, such as Tony Blair's ally Alastair Campbell.
Gavin Barwell was named new chief of staff. While Labour has pledged "fair rules and reasonable management of migration", its immigration strategy would be a big departure from the tough Conservative approach, making allowances (significantly for India) for family reunions and a more welcoming environment for students. She's taking us back to those times.
Downing Street says it hopes to finalize the deal next week, after Parliament resumes sitting.
The spokesman indicated this would not be a formal coalition but a minority government with looser DUP support on a "confidence and supply basis".
The DUP opposes same-sex marriage and Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom where it is not legal.
The crisis also increases the chance that Britain will fall out of the European Union in 2019 without a deal.
"Our view of Brexit I don't think has changed, we want a partnership with Europe, we want an agreement that maximizes our access to the single market, comes to an arrangement on immigration, continues the security cooperation we already have with Europe", he told BBC television. They could not possibly prefer a Labour Party that is itself divided over Brexit.
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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.
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Asked if she is now just a caretaker leader, May noted that "I said during the election campaign that if elected I would intend to serve a full term".
"She's then got to present a programme to Parliament".
"We'll invite the House to consider all the issues we put forward which I've mentioned - jobs-first Brexit, mention the issues of young people and austerity, there's many other things", he said.
The Labour leader told the Sunday Mirror he would oppose the Queen's Speech all the way. "May fights to remain PM", said the front page of the Daily Telegraph, while the Times of London said: "May stares into the abyss".
"The Conservatives have not yet broken the British system of democracy, but through their hubris and incompetence they have managed to make a mockery of it", it said in an editorial.
Its eurosceptic wing has always been a thorn in the side of Conservative prime ministers.
She has vowed to steer Britain unerringly out of the European Union, unwinding a complex economic and institutional relationship that has developed over 44 years.
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