09 June, 2017
Speaking as results were still being counted, she said Britain needed a period of stability and that she would take responsibility for delivering it if, as forecast, she won the most seats.
Corbyn's newly energized Labour Party officially backs Brexit - since voters endorsed it in a referendum past year - but many important figures in the party advocate a much "softer" Brexit, and their views now may now carry sway.
Answer: It's an unusual situation in which no political party wins more than half of the 650 seats in the House of Commons.
The pound fell sharply after an exit poll in Britain's election forecast that the Conservatives would fall short of a majority in parliament, raising the prospect that the country might not have a clear victor or strong government as it starts its negotiations to leave the European Union.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged her to resign, but she said her party would "ensure" stability in the UK. With less room for manoeuvre, she may be forced to reject compromises proposed by Brussels and drive a harder bargain.
Former chancellor George Osborne described it as a "catastrophic" result while another Conservative MP said: "She needs to go".
Following the General Election in 2010, when no party had a majority, Gordon Brown remained as prime minister while the talks were taking place.
Mrs May, who had campaigned against Brexit past year but took over the Conservative party after David Cameron lost last June's Brexit referendum, delivered her terms for withdrawal in March.
"What's happened is people have said they have had quite enough of austerity", he said, adding it was time for a government that is "truly representative of all the people of this country". However, exit polls for both votes were broadly accurate.
Former Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond was also defeated, losing his seat to a Tory contender. "So whoever you have voted for in the past, if that is the future you want then vote Conservative today and we can all go forward together".
The Conservatives won the most seats in parliament.
When she called the election, she was enjoying opinion poll leads of 20 points and more.
But analysts say it now appears the prime minister made a serious miscalculation.
The poll put Tories on 314 seats, with Labour on 266, the Scottish National Party on 34, Liberal Democrats on 14, Plaid Cymru on three and Greens on one.
The surge did not help the smaller parties make the comeback they had hoped for, and instead seemed to help return Britain to the kind of two-party politics that seemed to have been left behind in recent elections. Over the next few days questions will also be asked about Theresa May's campaign, where it failed and, in particular, all eyes will be on youth turnout to see whether the under 35s surprised everyone by turning out and making their voices heard in this election.
Voters may have been unimpressed with her refrain that "no deal is better than a bad deal" because it raised the prospect of Britain crashing out of the EU bloc without a trade and immigration system to replace the existing, well-integrated procedures that have evolved over decades of European integration.
Mr Goodman said they believed Mrs May's two closest advisers, joint chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill "must go" and there could be major changes to the Brexit process, single market membership "may now be on the table", the website said.
The first two results from northeast England indicated that Labour is not doing as well as the exit poll suggested. I said at the start this election was wrong.
And it is highly likely that Mrs May too would hold back on any resignation until she has had time to test whether she has the support to attempt to continue in office.
Initially the sterling fell to nearly 88p against the euro as the first exit polls came out, however they have recovered slightly on the news that it is unlikely that Jeremy Corbyn will be Prime Minister.
