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May adopts contrite style after Tory MPs vent anger over poll

Prime minister apologises to Tories “whos lost” sits and reaffirms top cabinet positions in DUP-backed minority government

A chastened Theresa May has apologised to her party colleagues, after spending the Reactionary majority with an ill-fated snap general election, action her be returned to Northern Irelands Democratic Unionist party for backing.

A surge in support for Jeremy Corbyns Labour party and its anti-austerity message drove the Conservatives into withdraw, leaving them unable to anatomy majority decisions authority alone.

Labour won the last tush to proclaim, Kensington and Chelsea, signifying it had 262 MPs and the Conservatives 318 MPs. The prime minister will seek to govern with the help of the DUPs 10 MPs.

In a contrite interview, May answered: I wanted to achieve a larger majority. That was not the result we secured. And Im sorry for all those candidates and hard-working party workers who werent successful, but too for those colleagues who were MPs and ministers and contributed so much better to our country and who lost their benches and who didnt deserve to lose their seats.

Her explicit confession came after some colleagues were infuriated by an earlier testimony in Downing Street that failed to acknowledge the disastrous election result, which many regard as self-inflicted.

After reverting from Buckingham Palace, where she received the Princess consecrating to structure both governments, May had promised to provide certainty, and advocated her colleagues: Lets get to work.

The prime minister received the staunch backing of pro-Brexit MPs, including Brexit secretary David Davis, amid concerns that the results of the elections could stall the process of leaving the European Union, with formal talks due to start within 10 days.

Steve Baker, chair of the influential pro-Brexit European Research Group of backbench MPs, announced: My principal thought is that its essential that Conservative MPs support Theresa May as “ministers ” and make it possible to form the most stable authority possible.

But throughout the day, the “ministers ” faced a developing public reaction from MPs and overcome nominees, who uttered their savagery publicly at the practice awareness-raising campaigns was moved, and the secretive, controlling management style of Mays joint chiefs of staff: Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy.

Nicky Morgan, who was sacked as education secretary by May, responded: Im reeling. I think were all reeling. I think theres real hysterium against the campaign and the horse stops at the top.

She said it was right for the prime minister to continue in power for the time being, but contributed: I consider she wont pushed another ballot and I contemplate eventually, whether it takes weeks or months, we will have to look at the leadership.

Other MPs conjectured openly about the likelihood that May could be forced to call another referendum within months, as she struggles to govern with a wafer-thin majority, even with the backing of the DUP.

Sarah Wollaston, the Conservative MP for Totnes and former chair of the Commons health committee, mentioned: I do conceive she should stay on but I wouldnt be surprised if we end up having another poll soon and parties will be absolutely appalled by it.

May, who utilized a threat of a Labour-led coalition of chaos as a key assault route during the campaign, will not enter into a formal deal with the DUP but hopes to prevail its endorsement on a vote-by-vote basis. She is expected to address parliamentary colleagues next week in a bid to shore up support.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron alleged her of trying to shape her own coalition of chaos. He answered: She applied her defendant before our own countries. “Shes been” found out. She should be ashamed.

She has brought weakness and uncertainty. If she has an ounce of self-respect she will resign.

In a signal of the prime ministers undermined authority, she reappointed the 5 elderly cabinet members Amber Rudd, Davis, Boris Johnson, Philip Hammond and Michael Fallon despite expectations that Hammond, and perhaps Johnson, could be moved aside if she intensified her majority.

One cabinet source suggested May had offered them a reassurance that situations will be changing, and a observe in her video interview that she would announce farther personnels changes was spoken by insiders as a suggestion that she could be ready to relinquish Hill and Timothy. The duet were not in their usual situate at her line-up in No 10 on Friday night, Downing Street insiders said.

More junior appointments are expected to be made at the weekend as the “ministers ” supersedes frontbenchers who lost their seats including Ben Gummer, the former Ipswich MP who was one of the key columnists of the ill-fated manifesto, and house pastor Gavin Barwell, who lost Croydon Central.

While Labour descended well short of a parliamentary majority, Corbyns team believe the result was a justification of their upbeat, anti-cuts message, and will attempt to clog fresh austerity measures, including Tory manifesto programs such as means-testing the winter gasoline permit, in the voting lobbies.

A spokesman for Corbyn added: We will be using the changed parliamentary arithmetic to drive home the facts of the case that the Tory programme for five more years of austerity will not go on as before.

Labour was rejuvenated by an upbeat expedition, which experienced the working party leader address scores of mass revivals, and resulted in numerous MPs vastly increasing their majorities.

Longtime Conservative seats, including Canterbury in Kent, were grasped by a resurgent Labour, which polled 40% of the vote, with the Conservatives on 42%, as minor parties were constricted. The increased number of Labours vote share was the largest for any party between two general elections since 1945.

Corbyns peers, including those who had previously conveyed strong criticism of his leader, praised his campaign. Owen Smith, who objection Corbyn for the party leadership last summer after saying he was unfit for the job, enunciated: I take my hat off to him, Chuka Umunna, the Streatham MP previously considered a potential leadership challenger, said he would consider accepting important roles in a Corbyn-led shadow cabinet.

In Scotland the Scottish National party lost 21 of its 56 seats, including the rights of defendant heavyweights Angus Robertson and Alex Salmond, with the Reactionary, Lib Dems and Labour all stirring gains.

Nicola Sturgeons stunning demand for a second liberty referendum before the UK leaves the EU sounded not to have enthused the electorate.

Ruth Davidsons Scottish Conservatives, who placed preserving the union at the centre of their campaign, achieved the best Tory to be translated into Scotland since 1983. Davidson pointedly tweeted a recent speech she made about lesbian matrimony on Friday, after Mays announcement that she would work closely with the socially republican DUP, which is opposed to gay marriage.

One explanation for Labours better-than-expected concert was its success in picking up a share of the votes lost by Ukip, which withdrew from many accommodates and met its support downfall in others. Corbyns party has made a deliberate populist pitch for left behind voters; and sought to neutralise the issue of Brexit by backing Mays legislation triggering Article 50.

Ukip leader Paul Nuttall announced on Friday that he would be stepping down, after less than a year in the pole, stimulating speculation that Nigel Farage could step back into the role. In a speech in London, Nuttall predicted his party would continue to be the guard dogs of Brexit in the months ahead.