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LONDON, June 11-- With confusion surrounding a deal to ensure the Conservatives can form a working government, former chancellor George Osborne Sunday strongly slammed British Prime Minister Theresa May over the snap election called by May, which resulted in the loss of the Conservative's majority in parliament. Osborne was fired by May soon after she replaced David Cameron at 10 Downing Street a year ago. In an interview Sunday, Osborne, who has now quit politics altogether after a short spell as a back bench MP, predicted May would leave Downing Street. Osborne, now editor of the London Evening Standard newspaper, said May's days in Downing Street are numbered. The snap general election called by May in the hope of securing a bigger majority in the House of Commons, instead saw the Conservatives emerging with insufficient seats to form a majority government. Party managers turned to their allies in Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), who made two gains in Thursday's election to give them 10 seats at Westminster. May announced the Conservatives and the DUP had worked out a working arrangement that would be enough to buoy her government, by giving May a narrow working majority of just two with her own 318 MPs plus the 10 DUP politicians. The Sunday Telegraph reported that May's grip on power appears far from secure despite the potential deal with the DUP to support her in parliament. | 
