“I got us into this mess, and I’m going to get us out”, Theresa May told Conservative MPs in Westminster.
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Talks between the government and the DUP are due to restart Tuesday after confusion over the weekend whether an outline deal had been reached, but the Northern Irish party is in the driving seat as they know they are May’s only option of forming a government.
If those talks are not delayed, she will have to form a government and then get a new Brexit plan in play in a matter of days. The Liberal Democrats also saw their proportion increase, with four more MPs being elected in the General Election.
Investors are trying to gauge what impact the vote could have on the economy and the Brexit talks.
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said there was an “ambiguity” about both what would go in it – with several manifesto pledges expected to be watered down or dropped – but also the need for the Tories to “nail down” DUP support. May, on the other hand, would have 328 supporters if the ten DUP MPs back her.
Sparring between the two sides is in full force ahead of the scheduled start of complex negotiations with Brussels next week, with a tight timetable that would see Britain leave the European Union in March 2019.
British Prime Minister Theresa May gives a speech at 10 Downing Street after meeting with the Queen in London, Britain on June 9, 2017.
Adams says Ireland’s incoming government must act to protect the peace process.
“It is really for Sinn Fein to decide where they want those powers to lie”.
He also said the government would “walk away” with no deal if talks broke down on ending Britain’s four-decade membership of the European bloc. “This doesn’t depend entirely on us”.
AFP | British Prime Minister Theresa May took the blame for the ruling Conservatives’ disastrous performance at last week’s elections, as she faced her party’s angry MPs on Monday, seeking to ward off any challenge to her leadership.
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.
May says there will be no second general election.
Foster has let the Prime Minister squirm for days as the DUP stalls in making its support for May official.
“Our position is clearly set out, it is clearly set out in a number of places and there has been no change to that”, May’s spokesman said, adding that the Brexit minister David Davis had set out the same position earlier on Monday.
Mr Davis also indicated “we will start down this process” by focusing on the divorce proceedings from the European Union before moving on to trade.
Theresa May defeated her hard left Socialist opponent, Jeremy Corbyn, whose big government, high tax, heavy spending agenda promised to return the United Kingdom to the dark days of the 1970s, when Britain’s economy was dubbed the “sick man” of Europe.
With her government majority at zero, May has no control over Parliament a week away from the Queen’s Speech, when new laws are presented, and the scheduled start of Brexit talks. This marked an apparent reversal of plans to turf out those considered less than loyal – a sign of her weakened stature in a party that traditionally craves strong leaders.
Asked if he was now accepting Brussels’ timetable, as set out by chief negotiator Michel Barnier, Mr Davis said: “What we have said is we will start down this process but I will have some discussions with Mr Barnier about how we progress to the wider thing of the trade area”.
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Conservative lawmaker Nicky Morgan told ITV that she could support a confidence and supply arrangement with the DUP, but any closer deal would be “a step too far”.
