British PM says she takes responsibility for election result

British Prime Minister Theresa May insists she is staying put, despite calls for her resignation after the Conservative Party's poor election result.

It was announced yesterday that Mr Hammond, David Davis, Amber Rudd and Boris Johnson would keep their jobs as Chancellor, Brexit Secretary, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary respectively.

The BBC said the programme was based on "exhaustive research and first-person testimonies" and would "lay bare the politicking and positioning, betrayals and blunders" of the time.

"There can be no backsliding from the objectives the PM set out in the [election] campaign - taking back control of our laws, our borders, our cash; but also ensuring that we have a great new partnership with the European Union that allows us to trade more freely and enthusiastically than ever", Mr Johnson wrote in the right-wing tabloid The Sun.

"The UK has had a reputation, earned over the generations, for stability and predictability in its government", said a senior executive at a multi-national company listed on the London FTSE 100, speaking on condition of anonymity.

But since coming to power three weeks after the shock vote to leave the European Union, the prime minister has advocated a hard Brexit, which would entail Britain leaving the single market and cutting immigration from the bloc.

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He also said the government would "walk away" with no deal if talks broke down on ending Britain's four-decade membership of the European bloc.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said May's government lacked the credibility necessary for Brexit talks and should delay the negotiations. Davidson added that party needed to reach out: "I do think that there can be changes in the offer of Brexit as we go forward".

DUP leader Arlene Foster rejected suggestions that the mooted deal could undermine a return to power-sharing arrangements at Stormont, amid claims from political rivals that the Government's stated impartiality would be fatally undermined.

Brexit will likely be on the agenda at the Paris meeting, after May confirmed she will stick to the negotiating timetable. While the prime minister fought to win the support she needs to stay in power, she still told German Chancellor Angela Merkel she plans to start Brexit talks on schedule in a couple of weeks.

In October past year a report emerged that he was among a number of Cabinet ministers who had aligned with Chancellor Philip Hammond to caution Mrs May against a hard Brexit.

He was made Environment Secretary, taking the role formerly held by Andrea Leadsom.

British Prime Minister Theresa May gives a speech at 10 Downing Street after meeting with the Queen in London, Britain on June 9, 2017. But it was her words about the party which won many over.She spoke about being "a servant of the party since she was 12-years-old" when she started stuffing envelopes with Conservative Party promotional material, a lawmaker said.Another said: "I just wished we had seen more of it during the campaign".

"There has been a lot of hyperbole about the DUP since Thursday", Foster said.

"What's clear is that there is going to be a real imperative on the economic impact of Brexit - to make sure that Brexit works for the whole country, to make that we're able to pursue free trade", Davidson said.

"I will serve you for as long as you want me".

It is reported that the backbenchers will seek clarification of any proposed deal with the DUP on the formation of a government.