However, even though the British people expected that the results of the general election would provide a level of certainty the country needed, especially after the Brexit referendum, the Manchester bombing, and the London Bridge terror attack, all of which shockingly generated an atmosphere of uncertainty for United Kingdom politics, the initial results show otherwise.
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The moves buy May a temporary reprieve.
Democratic Unionists (DUP) from Northern Ireland holding 10 key seats in Britain’s Westminster parliament withheld support Sunday, prompting May’s office to retract its previous claim that an “outline” coalition deal had already been agreed. There is also great uncertainty as to whether terror attacks will continue or not along with other uncertainties that have been around since the Brexit vote.
Downing St. said the Cabinet will discuss the agreement on Monday.
May’s co-chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, handed in their resignations on Saturday following the disastrous election.
If the PM fails to give a convincing performance to the backbench Conservative MPs on Monday, known collectively as the 1922 committee, she could face a leadership challenge within days.
The Conservatives won 318 House of Commons seats in last Thursday’s election, eight short of an outright majority.
If May had won a majority last Thursday, she would have been converting the policy agenda in the Conservative election manifesto into laws in the Queen’s Speech. “I and other colleagues have made that clear to her”.
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.
But the confusion reinforced a sense of chaos in the government just days before Britain starts complex Brexit negotiations. Her office was forced to admit it hadn’t achieved a final deal just hours after announcing that it had. It remains to be seen what the nature of that deal is.”But he said Ireland was anxious for the Brexit talks to go ahead despite the turmoil in London, and for the deal that they produce not to damage peace in Northern Ireland”.
It added that “the logic leading to Mrs”.
Osborne was sacked by May soon after she replaced David Cameron at 10 Downing Street a year ago.
The 60-year-old leader said she had tapped experience across the “whole of the Conservative Party” when she appointed Michael Gove, a long-serving cabinet minister who had clashed with May when she was home secretary, as agriculture minister.
The sides have until June 29 to secure a deal, but observers fear any concessions to the DUP by May’s Conservatives could complicate the talks, deepening the region’s political crisis. Senior figures in the DUP have opposed lifting the ban on gay men donating blood, and have said children raised by queer parents are “more likely to be abused and neglected”.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the U.K.in which same-sex marriage is illegal. She has kept in place her broader team of ministers too, with only a few changes.
DUP Leader Arlene Foster recently denied the party was homophobic. Speaking on Sunday morning, Corbyn said: “Is it credible that with all the issues facing our country, all the issues of inequality, injustice and the Brexit talks and everything else, that you have a government that can not actually gain a majority in the House of Commons except by doing a deal with a very socially conservative DUP?”
Meanwhile the main opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that he stands ready to lead the country and that a new general election could be held within months.
But Soubry said May’s time in the top job would be limited.
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“I think its quite possible there’ll be an election later this year or early next year, and that might be a good thing, because we can not go on with a period of great instability”, he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr on Sunday.
