Key dates for May as she seeks deal with Northern Ireland’s DUP

The result has demolished May’s political authority, and she has also lost her two top aides, sacrificed in a bid to save their leader from being toppled by a furious Conservative Party.

According to her office, May confirmed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a phone call that Britain was ready to begin Brexit negotiations “as planned in the next couple of weeks”. Her Labour rival Jeremy Corbyn said she should step down.

Conservative Party MP Anna Soubry said Ms May’s position was untenable long term.

The resignations came as May worked to fill jobs in her minority government.

Mr Kenny, the Republic of Ireland’s outgoing prime minister, said he wanted to indicate to Ms May his concerns about the impact a Conservative and DUP link-up could have.

But her party is deeply divided over what it wants from Brexit and the result means British businesses still have no idea what trading rules they can expect in the coming years.

That did not help May, who in her previous role as interior minister for six years had overseen cuts in the number of police officers.

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With all 650 seats declared, the Conservatives had won 318 seats, the Labour Party had 262 seats, followed by the pro-independence Scottish National Party on 34.

Two of May’s chief advisers resigned Saturday over the poorly managed campaign, which led to the ruling party’s losing majority in parliament by eight seats.

Sinn Fein chief negotiator Martin McGuinness visits the count centre in Ballymena, northern Ireland, March 8, 2007.

The 2015 Northern Ireland Plan was specifically designed for a hung parliament situation.

‘I genuinely think that the people of this country. have had enough of this stuff, I think what they want is. for us to get on, deliver Brexit and deliver on their priorities and Theresa May is by far the best person, and she’s the best-placed person to deliver that’.

A latest YouGov poll for “The Sunday Times” revealed that voters, by a margin of 48 per cent to 38 per cent, believe the Prime Minister should resign and for the first time Corbyn has drawn level with May on the question of who would be the best Prime Minister.

The Observer reported that the DUP was seeking to avoid any inclusion of controversial social policies, such as opposition to gay marriage or abortion, in its demands to the Tories, concentrating instead on commitments to no Irish unity referendum and no hard border imposed on the island of Ireland after Brexit.

To the surprise of many, May, who campaigned to remain in the European Union, had apparently set the United Kingdom on course for a hard Brexit, which involved leaving the single market behind.

“One can speculate about the reasons for this, but the simple truth is that Britain is a divided country: many are exhausted of austerity, many remain frustrated or angry about Brexit, and many younger people feel they lack the opportunities enjoyed by their parents’ generation”.

While the DUP campaigned to leave the European Union in last year’s referendum, it has refused to endorse Mrs May’s position that “no deal is better than a bad deal” – insisting that there must be no return of the “hard border” with the Republic.

“The Labour left remembered that you don’t win by tacking to an imaginary center – you win by letting people know you feel their anger and giving them a constructive end to channel it towards”. May said that he would bring “considerable experience” to the post.

But she seems secure for the immediate future, because senior Conservatives don’t want to plunge the party into a damaging leadership contest.