Posted on 06/07/2019 1:04:09 AM PDT by topher
LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May steps down as leader of her Conservative Party on Friday, formally triggering the race for a successor who will try where she failed to deliver Brexit.
May will remain prime minister until a new leader is chosen, likely in late July, but has relinquished control over the direction of Britain's tortuous departure from the European Union.
Brexit is still scheduled for October 31 but while her rivals thrash it out, the project remains stuck, with the only divorce plan agreed with Brussels stuck in parliament.
May took office after the 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU and has spent the past three years working on the plan, delaying Brexit twice to try to get it through.
But she finally acknowledged defeat in a tearful resignation speech last month, the culmination of months of political turmoil that has slowly sapped all her authority.
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[British Prime Minister Theresa May steps down as leader of her Conservative Party on Friday]
Good riddance
Getting out of the EU seems to be harder than getting out of a time-share...
Or cancelling a Reader’s Digest subscription
the same as socialism.........you can vote your way in..but you have to fight your way out....
Wonder who Bumdestag will pick to replace May...
She was no Thatcher certainly.
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