request permission to form a government - even though she has lost her Commons majority. She said she was still leader of the largest party in the Commons - but failed to even mention she had humiliatingly lost seats to Labour after calling the election three years early in a bid to capitalise on sky-high poll ratings.
The defiant
move came as Mrs May faces open calls from her own MPs to 'consider her
position', while a jubilant Jeremy Corbyn has demanded she make way for
him to become PM. Former chancellor George Osborne lambasted her
campaign performance as 'wooden' and her manifesto as a disaster. Even
the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), whose 10 MPs Mrs May is set to rely
on to keep her in Downing Street, said it would be 'difficult' for her
to cling on.
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