UK Elections 2017 – What Happens Next as Theresa May loses majority

New elections will be called.

Mrs May was working on a Cabinet reshuffle, although the election result makes it less likely she will risk alienating colleagues by making wholesale changes as she can not afford to have disgruntled former ministers sniping at her from the backbenches. Beleaguered British Prime Minister Theresa May is appointing new members of he.

The political U-turn, created to shore up an increased majority ahead of impending Brexit negotiations, spectacularly backfired on the Prime Minister and her party, who lost 13 seats against their 2015 results.

In return for shoring up the Tory majority the party has demanded considerable more resources for Northern Ireland, more influence and involvement in trade deals.

The party with the most female lawmakers is the opposition Labour party with almost half of its elected members of parliament (MPs) women, while the smaller Green Party’s only elected MP is a woman.

Sky’s political editor Faisal Islam said: “This is the most extraordinary balancing act”.

The Conservative and Unionist Party is now short of the overall majority which they had in the last election. The main opposition Labour Party surpassed expectations by winning 262.

How minority government and any new “confidence and supply” arrangement works will be up to the politicians in Westminster, who have to weigh up these trade-offs.

EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said it may now be possible to discuss closer ties between Britain and the EU than May had initially planned, given her election flop.

No party was able to win more than 326 seats, which is needed to form a majority in Commons, in the election.

May’s Downing St. office said Conservative Chief Whip Gavin Williamson was in Belfast Saturday for talks with the DUP “on how best they can provide support to the government”.

The DUP also fights hard against women’s right to choose to have an abortion, making them the biggest pro-forced pregnancy party in the UK.

Having called the snap election to increase her working majority of just 17 to give her a mandate to go to Brussels and argue her case for Brexit, she has failed and now looks nothing like the “strong and stable” leader she espoused herself to be ahead of the election.

Northern Ireland is the only part of the U.K.in which same-sex marriage is illegal.

“I think it would be very, very hard indeed for her to stay on”, political analyst Carole Walker told CNN. “I had heard a lot of people going for her, so I was like, Labour aren’t going to get in now, but I’m pleased because Labour have a chance now”, said Jemma Bell, 23, told AFP in Wakefield, northern England. “There is scepticism from the Treasury and broader government antipathy towards London, plus with the worries of affordability since Brexit, I would say the mood music is there for all to see”. “When it becomes a matter for me is when people try to redefine marriage”.

Abortion is also legal and free to access in the United Kingdom, but not in Northern Ireland, which heavily restricts it. Abortion is also illegal in the Republic of Ireland. The Democratic Unionist Party recorded its best ever election result.

May has been pressing for a so-called “hard” Brexit, which would include leaving the EU’s massive collective market and no longer allowing European Union citizens to come and live and work freely in the United Kingdom.

Former minister Anna Soubry said Mrs May should “consider her position” after a “dreadful campaign” while backbencher Heidi Allen suggested she could be out within a matter of months, depending on the Brexit negotiations. According to British media sources, the Conservative Party leader is unlikely to offer her resignation.

Newspaper headlines saw her as just clinging on.

Pressed on how long she would stay PM, Mr Jones said: “That remains to be seen”.