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A claim that Theresa May was a ”dead woman walking” from George Osborne has been rejected by a Conservative MP.

Dominic Raab told Andrew Neil the former chancellor had “made the transition from a Conservative politician to a mischievous journalist with great ease”.

Mr Raab said most MPs would see the jibe as “disloyal, unprofessional and frankly pretty self-indulgent”.

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While conceding that the Conservatives had a "disappointing" election, Cabinet minister Chris Grayling maintains that it's "not exactly a rosy story" for Labour either.

Speaking on Peston on Sunday, he insisted that, despite their major gains in Thursday's election, Labour was no further forward than in 2010, when Gordon Brown lost.

He said their manifesto didn't add up and added: "I suspect that a number of people voted for Jeremy Corbyn because they didn't think he would become Prime Minister."

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Conservative MP Dominic Raab said of the election result: “We still won the most votes and the most seats and my reading, from talking to MPs across the board, is the overall majority want to see Theresa May continue in office.”

On working with the DUP, he claimed there were “strong areas of overlap, but we don’t agree on everything.”

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The leader of the DUP, Arlene Foster has told Sky News that “discussions continue” with the Conservatives about forming a “national government” to bring stability to the nation.

The DUP confirmed that Mrs Foster would be going to Downing Street on Tuesday after discussions in Belfast over the weekend were said to have made "good progress".

She said the DUP will “act in the national interest” and do “what’s right for the UK”.

She added there had been a “lot of hyperbole” about the DUP in recent days.

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Labour MP Stephen Kinnock says his party's manifesto was a "sea-change".

Speaking to the BBC's John Pienaar, he said: "The manifesto was radical and realistic. We had a positive vision for the country but it was fully costed.

"Something magical happened - we rallied around that manifesto and around the leader, in stark contrast to the Tories trying to rally around someone that has no personality."

Asked if he would consider a role in the shadow cabinet, he said: "If Jeremy asked me to serve, I would be honoured to do so."

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Culture Secretary Karen Bradley dismisses suggestions that her cabinet colleague Boris Johnson is planning to move against Theresa May.

"Boris has been clear he has not been seeking a leadership election," she says.

She thinks the prime minister will "find it very deeply affecting that she has seen colleagues lose their seats".

But, Ms Bradley adds, the PM is "very resilient" and "has to put the country before any personal feelings".

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The prime minister will probably leave office by the end of the year, says Anna Soubry, who told Andrew Neil that Theresa May “has considered her position and I think she is set to go in due course."

But she added: "We don’t want her to go now, we want a period of stability and she has got to reach out, and form a consensus... particularly on Brexit."

The Nottinghamshire MP added: "We are going to be leaving the EU, I don’t think there is any change there. But we are not going to be leaving the EU in some irresponsible way that will damage our country and the future generations in our country."

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"This fragile government, even with the help of the DUP, can collapse at any moment," the Spectator's Fraser Nelson tells Sky's Sophie Ridge.

Joey Jones, a former Theresa May adviser, says she is a "hostage in Downing Street for as long as her party decides to keep her there".

The Conservative MP and former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has said she thinks a Conservative leadership election is likely to happen over the summer.

Speaking on Peston on Sunday, she said Theresa May could not lead the party into another election.

“If we’re having another leadership contest in the Tory party, then we cannot have another coronation like last summer,” she said.

To shut members of the party out of a future contest would be “deeply discourteous” to them, she said.

Asked when she thought a leadership contest would take place, Ms Morgan said she suspected it could be over the summer, and it should involve the party conference, with contenders able to present their platforms there.

Ms Morgan said she herself had given "no thought" as to whether she might stand in any leadership contest, saying it was "too early" to consider her position.

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Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith has been speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics.

Asked about what went wrong for the Conservative Party, he said: "We set out to fight a Brexit election but ended up fighting an austerity election.

"We ended up fighting on the Labour Party's agenda. Our manifesto didn't offer anything hopeful."

But he said the Conservative Party needed to "take a deep breath".

"We're in government - we didn't come up with a clear victory but we are still the majority party.

"Politics comes in cycles - what you have, you have to hold. We have to get our act together very quickly."

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The prime minister should stay in office and there was no need for another general election, says Graham Brady.

The chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee told Andrew Neil that he detected “zero appetite amongst the public for another election”.

He said the country needed “experienced” and “responsible people in government” ahead of talks with the EU.

And he rejected claims from the presenter that some Conservatives had told him Theresa May must never lead the party into another election: “I don’t agree with that.”

He added: “We are resolutely focused on trying to make sure the country can have the responsible steady government it needs.”

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Culture Secretary Karen Bradley says there are many differences between the Conservatives and the DUP but "we have common cause in some areas".

Ms Bradley tells Sky's Sophie Ridge that "the DUP is a mainstream party in Northern Ireland" but adds: "We are two separate parties and will continue to be so."

She anticipates there will be a "confidence and supply arrangement" between the parties, while matters such as abortion and same-sex marriage - which the DUP oppose - are "matters of conscience" for MPs.

"I'm very proud I voted for same-sex marriage," Ms Bradley says.

She argues that Jeremy Corbyn "doesn't have enough MPs" to form a government and "we have to face the reality of where we are".

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Conservative peer Lord Heseltine has told Sky: "Jeremy Corbyn is within a handful of seats of Number 10."

He told Sophie Ridge that Parliament is unable to legislate on "the big issues of the time" and Labour could be helped by the "inevitable, merciless process of by-elections" as time goes on.

And he added: "We're not going to win the Brexit negotiations. The fact is, we will suffer by leaving the European Union."

Lord Heseltine also claimed the support of the DUP "will only get us halfway through" before likely "midterm blues" in the next Parliament.

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Conservative MP and former Equalities Minister Nicky Morgan told ITV's Robert Peston that as leader of "the largest party" the prime minister is entitled to form a government with the support of the DUP on a confidence and supply basis, but anything more formal would be a step too far.

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Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has told ITV's Robert Peston that any form of relationship between the Conservative Party and the DUP - to bolster a minority Conservative government - was "bound to be inherently unstable".

"I cannot see the relationship with the DUP holding together," he said.

Asked if the Labour Party was interested in forming its own coalition, he insisted: "No deals, no coalitions."