UK’s Theresa May Admits Defeat, Will Step Down As Prime Minister In June

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 24: Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement outside 10 Downing Street on May 24, 2019 in London, England. The prime minister has announced that she will resign on Friday, June 7, 2019. (P... LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 24: Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement outside 10 Downing Street on May 24, 2019 in London, England. The prime minister has announced that she will resign on Friday, June 7, 2019. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May announced Friday she would step down next month, bringing to a close a tumultuous two years of leadership that began just after the people of Britain voted to leave the European Union.

During a press conference on Friday morning, May said she would stay on as prime minister until a new leader is chosen, according to the Associated Press. May called it the “honor of my life” to serve as prime minister, a post her party has been pressuring her to leave since March when the deadline passed for Britain’s EU exit.

May spent her year and a half tenure attempting to negotiate a deal to leave the European Union, but the British Parliament rejected all of her proposals.

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  1. May is a truly awful person who likely will be replaced by someone worse.

  2. May is a truly awful person who likely will be replaced by someone worse.

    Boris has not been elected yet…

  3. Can you imagine Trump and Boris? Is this the end-times punishment for our nations, payback for the truly shitty, murderous past of our governments?

  4. I’m not sure, they will play well together.

    Does that mean Donald’s carriage ride has been cancelled ? He will be pissed…

  5. That’s the most frightening part.

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