May to face Tory backbenchers following disastrous election result

Alastair Campbell is one of a number of Labour figures and MPs who slammed Theresa May for negotiating with the socially conservative party, on Thursday accusing the Prime Minister of making “a sordid, risky distasteful deal” which puts peace in Northern Ireland “at risk”.

The MPs were apparently enthused by Mrs May’s appearance, despite some reportedly wanting her out, and banged on tables for around 25 seconds and briefly cheered when she arrived.

“It’s just how long she’s going to remain on death row”, former Conservative Chancellor George Osborne, who was sacked by May when she became prime minister a year ago, told the BBC.

But she is not without supporters, and with Brexit talks scheduled to take place soon, she may be able to hold on to her position for a little while longer. As the full consequences of a deal with the DUP become clear, she is likely to find that her own future, like most of her recent actions, doesn’t have many prospects beyond the short-term.

Investors are trying to gauge what impact the vote could have on the economy and the Brexit talks.

The political uncertainty generated by this election must not derail the Brexit process. Whatever the outcome from the hung parliament scenario, Britain’s leaders must guarantee that they will implement the will of the British people by ensuring that their nation completely leaves the European Union by the end of March 2019.

Seibert was unable to say which other countries are applying to host the two agencies.

He said his party would seek to vote down May’s Queen’s Speech, or program for government, when she presented it to parliament.

“I don’t think she does have a majority in the House of Commons for leaving the single market”, she told Sky News.

The Sinn Féin leader confirmed the party’s “magnificent seven” new MPs would not take up seats in Westminster.

Mr Davis said the issue was “time sensitive” while EU members were focused on European citizens living in the UK.

“We are going to see, I hope, more collective decision-making in the cabinet”.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said May’s government lacked the credibility necessary for Brexit talks and should delay the negotiations. “This doesn’t depend entirely on us”.

Theresa May has told Conservative lawmakers she will serve as prime minister as long as they want her after a botched election gamble cost the party its majority in parliament and weakened Britain’s hand days before formal Brexit negotiations.

Already there are expectations that the Queen’s Speech, which would outline the government’s legislative agenda for next year, will be delayed from next Monday. It “clearly isn’t where we wanted or expected to be following the general election”, he said. By tradition, defeat on a Queen’s Speech vote topples the government.

May’s party fell eight seats short of retaining its parliamentary majority, and is now in talks with Northern Ireland’s ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) – which won 10 seats – to forge an informal alliance.

Winterstein said the commission was “quite confident” that so-called technical talks to pave the way for the Barnier-Davis negotiations could begin as early as this week.

“The question is now whether a coalition government will make Britain a more constructive negotiating partner, perhaps moving away from the “hard Brexit” posturing of the past months, which does not seem to be the case”, said Joris Larik, a senior researcher at The Hague Institute for Global Justice.

May’s spokesman said it remained government policy to cut net migration to under 100,000 and Davis also said walking away without securing a deal with the remaining 27 European Union states remained a possibility.

When May called the general election, the polls suggested that she could win a 180-seat majority, something that would have given May free rein to implement the most controversial Conservative policies.