THE Brexit process needs to be put on pause while the dust settles on the shock General Election result, Caroline Lucas has said.

The returned Brighton Pavilion MP said Theresa May needed to review her position on Brexit after the country rejected her vision by cutting her majority.

Hove MP Peter Kyle has also urged the process now moves forward in a spirit of reconciliation, claiming Mrs May had ignored Remain voters.

The call comes with Brexit discussions due to begin later this month although EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier suggested the launch be delayed claiming the UK Government was in too weak a position to negotiate an effective deal.

But the calls are set to fall on deaf ears as a resolute Prime Minister said yesterday that the talks timetable would continue as planned.

Ms Lucas said: “Theresa May went to the country with the proposition of saying she wants this greater majority for this extreme Brexit. She didn’t get it, it was thrown back in her face. She needs to review her position and we certainly need to review the position on Brexit.”

With the loss of 12 seats the Conservatives have had to resort to forming an agreement with the DUP, who won ten seats despite winning fewer than 300,000 votes while the Greens have just one seat for their 600,000 votes.

Ms Lucas said the election outcome, which sees Theresa May remain as Prime Minister despite a disastrous night for her leadership, “certainly pointed” to the need for a fairer electoral system. She said: “We are left with the real chaos Theresa May talked about before.

“I hope very much we can pause the Brexit process now, the European Commissioner himself feels that Britain wouldn’t get the best deal when it’s potentially got such a weak Government.

“Let’s hope we can pause that, let’s hope that we can change the direction on the kind of direction being pursued, let’s hope that any final deal goes back to the people to be signed off not just MPs.”

Mr Kyle said the election result meant Mrs May and her party will have to think very carefully about their next steps.

He said: “It is important we move forward with a spirit of reconciliation. Theresa May failed to listen to people who voted Remain. She focused on one part of the country and what the country has said is that it wants reconciliation not division.

“She presented a fundamentally divisive way forward and the country rejected it. The Labour Party now needs to find a way to unite people going forward.”

Yesterday Mrs May promised to guide the country through the crucial Brexit talks beginning in just ten days and deliver on the will of the British people by taking the UK out of the EU.

She said the Conservatives and DUP would work together “in the interests of the whole United Kingdom”.

She added: “This will allow us to come together as a country and channel our energies towards a successful Brexit deal that works for everyone in this country, securing a new partnership with the EU which guarantees our long-term prosperity.

“That’s what people voted for last June, that’s what we will deliver. Now let’s get to work.”