'The Conservative Party is the best political party in the world. 'Everyone here has worked incredibly long hours, and I'm thankful for all the work people have put in,' she said. 'It has been a difficult night but through no fault of anyone here,' May told staffers, according to one account from a senior figure in the room. It's little wonder that the prime minister was said by one campaign official to have been in tears. The loss of her parliamentary majority 10 days before the start of Brexit talks ruined her own prospects and plunged Britain into renewed political chaos. Surrounded by discarded food wrappers, inflated blue balloons and empty bottles of beer and wine, May addressed the wreckage of a gamble that went from sure thing to catastrophe in less than two months. when an exhausted Theresa May entered the campaign war room at Tory headquarters to face her demoralized party workers. Chancellor of Exchequer Philip Hammond made her go for snap polls.For 9 months after becoming PM, she had ruled out calling an early poll.
