British prime minister Theresa May confirmed that the talks on the UK's withdrawal from the EU with the European commission's chief negotiator Michel Barnier and the Commission's president Jean-Claude Juncker will lost its majority in the Commons.

Britain is now in a weaker position for negotiating, also because May is holding talks with the Northern Irish Protestant and eurosceptic DUP party on forming the new government.

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