As she was under pressure to resign, after a backlash by her own MPs against her latest Brexit plan, the British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday announced that she would resign from her post on Friday June 7.
With Friday morning’s confirmation that Mrs May will remain PM until her successor is chosen, it’s now clear that she will serve longer than Gordon Brown did. She will officially surpass Mr Brown’s length of term next Wednesday, when she hits two years, 320 days in office.
When she eventually leaves Number 10 in the summer, however, her premiership will still be one of the shortest, said a BBC News report.
The PM was moved to tears when she ended her statement. “Our politics may be under strain but there is so much that is good about this country, so much to be proud of,” she said.
“I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold.
She began to cry as she said she is grateful to “serve the country I love”. And with that she headed back into Number 10.
“A very sad but inevitable consequence of all that has happened,” says Conservative MP Gareth Johnson.
“Now the Conservative Party has to take time to reflect on that statement and obviously go on to elect a new leader. There is plenty of new talent out there but the person to unite the party is Dominic Raab.”
Since January, Parliament has rejected the withdrawal agreement Mrs May negotiated with the EU three times. Recent attempts to find a formal compromise with Labour also failed.
Mrs May had planned to publish the Withdrawal Agreement Bill on Friday – the legislation required to bring the agreement into UK law – describing it as “one last chance” to deliver Brexit.
However, her proposals – including a customs union arrangement and an offer to give MPs a vote on holding another referendum – angered many Tories.
