British prime minister Theresa May says her new cabinet will get on with governing after her party failed to gain a majority in parliament in the country's general election.
Some Conservative colleagues have rallied to support her, but others say her days as leader are numbered after last week's disastrous results for the Government.
British prime minister Theresa May has appointed ministers from across the Conservative Party to join her top team and says she is ready to get down to work again.
That will include a trip to France tomorrow to meet French president Emmanuel Macron.
Theresa May is seeking a deal with a Northern Irish party to prop up a Conservative minority government after her party lost its parliamentary majority in last week's snap election.
British politicians say the rebuff from voters means the Government will have to abandon its planned policies and reconsider its strategy for European Union exit talks.
Theresa May says the country needs certainty and stability at the moment and she believes the team she has brought together will deliver it.
"Crucially, I've brought in talent from across the whole of the Conservative Party. I believe that's important. This is a Government that's going to be governing for everyone. We want a country that works for everyone, bringing that talent together to ensure that we can get on with the job of delivering a successful Brexit but also deal with some of the challenges that people see in their everyday lives."
Theresa May is seeking the support of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party's 10 MPs to rule as a minority government.
D-U-P leader Arlene Foster says good progress has been made in talks with the Prime Minister's Conservative Party.
"We will, of course, act in the national interest and do what is right for the United Kingdom as a whole and, of course, Northern Ireland in particular. There's been a lot of hyperbole about the DUP since Thursday, a lot of things said, a lot of people who really don't know what we stand for. But just to be clear, we will act in the national interest. We want to do what's right for the whole of the UK and to bring stability to the government of the United Kingdom."
Theresa May's negotiations with the socially conservative D-U-P have brought demonstrators descending on London's Parliament Square in protest against the possible coalition.
There are concerns the D-U-P, which opposes gay marriage, may gain a rollback of gay rights in the rest of the country.
But the leader of the Conservative Party in Scotland, Ruth Davidson, says she has received assurances from the Prime Minister there will be no such rollback of gay rights.
"We are, after all, the Conservative Party, the party of equal marriage. We brought it forward to the parliament in England and Wales and made sure it passed. But I also wanted assurances that we would use any influence that we had to try and advance LGBTI rights in Northern Ireland as well. And these are assurances that I both sought and received."
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has also confirmed the party is committed to marriage equality.
But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the Government's failure to win a parliamentary majority leaves a chaotic situation and Britain could return to the polls within a year.
"I think it's quite possible, and quite possible there'll be an election later this year or early next year. And that might be a good thing, because we cannot go on with a period of great instability."
Theresa May has confirmed most of the ministers in her cabinet will remain.
It is an apparent reversal of earlier plans to get rid of those considered less than loyal and comes a day after accepting the resignations of her two closest aides.
