General Election 2017: DUP ‘In Positive Talks’ With Tories

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London, Friday, June 9, 2017. It means the final tally has the Conservatives on 318 seats and the Labour on 262 seats. But that has left May increasingly isolated in the upper reaches of the government and their departure failed to curb the clamor of criticism from within her parliamentary party as well as from constituency leaders across the country.

“Our two parties have enjoyed a strong relationship over many years”, she said. Corbyn says he’s prepared to keep up the pressure as Theresa May works to form a new government in the United Kingdom.

Another Tory government will still face calls from within to maintain May’s push towards a hard Brexit with about 60 of its lawmakers passionate about the split and unconcerned by a clean break.

Johnson is reportedly reluctant to issue a formal challenge for the leadership role as he believes it could further destabilize the government and may even provide Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with a real shot at No. 10 Downing St.

“Theresa May is a dead woman walking and the only question is how long she remains on death row”, said George Osborne, who had been sacked as United Kingdom chancellor when May took over at 10 Downing Street after David Cameron resigned as PM after the Brexit referendum in June 2016.

Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said the DUP and Conservatives had been “looking at the full range of possibilities” during Mr Williamson’s visit.

Conservative legislator Nigel Evans said the departure of the two aides was “a start”, but there needed to be changes to the way the government functioned in the wake of the campaign.

Britain’s newspapers lambasted Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday after she lost her Conservative majority in the general election, weakening her authority.

“The time-frame set by Article 50 of the Treaty leaves us with no time to lose”.

“I look forward to meeting with him again tomorrow if his appointment is reaffirmed, but yes I think it’s an important issue that you raise – the objectivity of both governments, and both governments working strictly in accordance with our legal responsibilities under the Belfast Agreement, the Irish government as co-guarantor, indeed the British Government as co-guarantor”.

In Brussels, home of the European Union, there was a mix of puzzlement, confusion and frustration over the chaos of British politics.

MARTIN: Well, so clearly there’s a lot to talk about. But “we know when they must end”.

EU Council President Donald Tusk told Britain in a Tweet: “Do your best to avoid a “no deal” as result of “no negotiations”. “With a weak negotiating partner, there’s the danger that the negotiations will turn out badly”.

On the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, the pro-EU former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine described Brexit as “the cancer gnawing at the Conservative Party” and urged a “period of contemplation” on the subject before negotiations begin.

The Democratic Unionist Party is the biggest unionist party in Northern Ireland – that is, it is against Ulster becoming part of the Republic of Ireland.

Meanwhile, DUP leader Arlene Foster has said that talks were ongoing, indicating it may not be such a smooth process after all.