LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – Britain’s Theresa May won a stay of execution from her Conservative Party on Monday (June 12) , winning support from disillusioned lawmakers after losing a parliamentary majority at last week’s national election.
The prime minister was described as “contrite” at a meeting of Conservative members called the 1922 Committee, apologising to those politicians who lost their seats in an election she did not need to hold and promising to clear up “the mess” she made on Thursday (June 8) by working more widely with her party.
Despite anger at the election, some lawmakers told Reuters after the meeting that May had their full support.
The loss of parliamentary majority pushed May into rushed talks on a support agreement with a small Eurosceptic Northern Irish Protestant party with 10 parliamentary seats.
The Cabinet Office minister Damian Green said the Conservatives Party hoped to produce a substantial Queen’s Speech, in which it traditionally spells out its policy plans, once lawmakers hammered out a deal to gain support from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party after an inconclusive election.