Exit polls predicted the Conservative Party would win 318 seats in Britain's 650-seat Parliament and the left-wing opposition Labour Party 267 - a race with no clear victor. And the majority want their fans to support Corbyn.
The DUP is the largest unionist party in Northern Ireland and its leader, Arlene Foster, has in the past ruled out forming alliances with Labour.
Exit polls, compiled for the UK's main television broadcasters, suggested as the polls closed that the Conservatives would secure only 314 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons - a loss of 17 seats.
Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg is another supporter.
Lily Allen, Stormzy, Akala and Ghost Poet also backed Corbyn who says he is "ready to serve".
Despite what is generally considered a humiliation, European Union President Donald Tusk took time to write May to congratulate her in the wake of the elections.
Conservatives fell 12 seats short of the 326 seats they needed for a majority, and are down from the 330 seats they had before May called for this early election.
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'My phone is full of texts from lots and lots of people from right across the party, ' he said.
The biggest loser was the UK Independence Party, which lost the one and only seat it held. The former prime minister of Finland, Alexander Stubb, tweeted, "Looks like we might need a time-out in the #Brexit negotiations".
The Scottish National Party lost more than 20 seats to knock the party down to 35 seats.
US President Donald Trump said in the Oval Office before a meeting with the President of Romania that the results of Thursday's election in the United Kingdom in which Theresa May lost her majority in parliament were unexpected. She's now attempting to form a government.
And 57 per cent of those who backed Jeremy Corbyn's party said they made their decision in the last month - indicating the poorly regarded Conservative campaign was a factor in their decision. Well the mandate she's got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence.
British voters headed to the polls after May had called for general elections in April. "I expect more uncertainty now". I mean, this is Theresa May's difficulty, that there is this solid core of lawmakers in her party who are very much hard Brexit-ers, and they've been fighting this battle for many years. After Britain was hit by two Islamist militant attacks that killed 30 people in less than two weeks, she also faced questions for having overseen cuts to numbers of police officers during her six years as interior minister.





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