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May vows to stay on as PM with Northern Irish allies
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jun 10, 2017 12:54pm |
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| Author | Annabelle Dickson |
| News Date | Friday, June 9, 2017 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | LONDON — Theresa May will stay on as prime minister for the time being — but her position is far from secure.
“What the country needs more than ever is certainty,” she said outside Number 10 Downing Street on Friday after getting the queen’s authorization to try to form a new government despite losing the Conservatives’ majority in Thursday’s snap election.
As the party that won most votes (and 318 seats to Labour’s 261), it was up to the Conservatives to form a new government, with the help of their “friends and allies in the Democratic Unionist Party in particular,” she said.
But hours later, DUP leader Arlene Foster said her party’s support to keep May in office was not yet a done deal — publicly at least. “The prime minister has spoken with me this morning and we will enter discussions with the Conservatives to explore how it may be possible to bring stability to our nation at this time of great challenge,” she said.
May does not just face negotiations with the DUP, the party founded by hard-line Unionist Ian Paisley, to secure her place in Number 10. Downing Street.
In just 10 days, Brexit talks with European leaders begin, while at home May faces a party and a cabinet who are furious over the “lackluster” and unnecessary campaign which cost the Conservatives a hard-fought majority they won just two years ago. |
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