Ms May said she called the crucial general election in order to strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations but her party lost seats and failed to reach a majority.
The election results create uncertainty surrounding the negotiations over Britain's exit from the European Union. "If she has an ounce of self-respect, she will resign", said Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, while Conservative M.P. and former minister Anna Soubry said May "is in a very hard place... she now has to obviously consider her position". She's then got to present a programme to Parliament. However, given the utter disaster that was last night's election, May could possibly resign as the leader of the party, ushering in a new prime minister.
May called the DUP her "friends and allies", and aims to have an informal partnership with them to govern.
May and her team of ministers retain full legal powers and will continue heading the government, until a new one is sworn in.
May is seeking to rely on the Democratic Unionist Party's 10 MPs to win key votes in parliament. She claims that this government will get the country through the Brexit talks and will lead Britain forward. The former prime minister of Finland, Alexander Stubb, tweeted, "Looks like we might need a time-out in the #Brexit negotiations".
May's party won 318 seats, 12 fewer than it had before the snap election, and eight short of the 326 needed for an outright majority.
ANNA SOUBRY, Member of Parliament, Conservative Party: This is a very bad moment for the Conservative Party and we need to take stock, and our leader needs to take stock as well. "We can still do this", he continued.
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The Conservatives held 330 seats in the last Parliament, compared with 229 for Labour, 54 for the Scottish National Party and nine for the Liberal Democrats.
Brexit was supposed to be the main theme of the election. He argues that the Labour party, while supportive of pro-Israel and a two-state solution policies, contains a far-left faction that is far less sympathetic of Israeli concerns.
If she is to succeed in delivering the end of Britain's European Union membership which 52 per cent of the British public demanded a year ago, she must find a way to recapture the full support of her party because she will need their votes to pass legislation preparing for and ultimately enacting the departure.
The arrangement with the DUP will make governing easier, but it makes some Conservatives uneasy. The DUP is a socially conservative group that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage and had links to Protestant paramilitary groups during Ireland's sectarian "Troubles".
The Labour MP for Nottingham East refused to say whether he thought Mr Corbyn was credible prime minister.
A deal between the government and the DUP could also unsettle the precarious balance between Northern Ireland's British loyalist and Irish nationalist parties, whose power-sharing administration in Belfast collapsed earlier this year.
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, said he hoped there would be no further delays, and that the result of the United Kingdom general election would not have a "major impact on the negotiations we are desperately waiting for".
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