Theresa May expected to announce her resignation - live news

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Latest news as prime minister widely expected to bow to pressure from Tory MPs and reveal the date she will leave Downing Street

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/may/24/theresa-may-resignation-uk-prime-minister-politics-brexit-live-news

5m ago
09:31
Today is likely to be a good day for Jacob Rees-Mogg

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10m ago
09:27
My colleague Peter Walker has put together this helpful list of the runners and riders for the Conservative party leadership.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/16/tory-leadership-contenders-whos-up-whos-down-replace-theresa-may

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1. This is an interesting thread from the Guardian's Paris bureau chief, Angelique Chrisafis

, who visited the north west to write this piece about the fallout from the Brexit chaos from a European perspective. “No idea how this all ends,” she concludes.

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2. Lectern just set up, May will soon come out

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3. More here

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/23/theresa-may-hold-talks-ministers-attempt-prolong-exit
Theresa May is widely expected to announce on Friday that she will resign as Conservative leader, amid deep concerns among centrist cabinet ministers that candidates to be the next prime minister will have to promise a hard Brexit.

May’s allies believe that she will promise to step down as leader by 10 June after the state visit of US president Donald Trump and then stay on as prime minister until her successor has been chosen.

A Downing Street source said she is expected to name a date for her resignation at a meeting with Sir Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, on Friday morning, while staying on as prime minister for the duration of a leadership contest. “But everything remains quite fluid,” the source said.

The prime minister is under pressure to set out a timetable for her departure after being told in private meetings by foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid, the home secretary, they could no longer support her Brexit strategy opening the door to a second referendum.

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5. what a bloody shambolic mess in both my countries, ffs

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6. The Dutch results are way better than expected

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212125601#post4

The Cons will lose the next election in Britian

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8. yes, I saw Labour won in the Netherlands and the far RW only came 3rd

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10. She's speaking now

WIll resign June 7

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4. Readers have been sharing their predictions below the line on what will happen next once May steps

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‘Neither Boris, Raab nor Hunt will get it’

My tuppence worth. Not that it means anything - my opinions rarely do and I’m usually wrong. Boris won’t get it. Nor will Raab or Hunt. I think they’ll go for a rank outsider, without the baggage. Personally I think they should drag Cameron back and force him to sort the shitfest he created. Pity it won’t happen. pocclondon

‘A delay to Brexit is granted by the EU, again’

Theresa May resigns. Brexiter is elected leader of the conservatives. A no confidence vote is called, they lose. General Election is called. No one wins. Hung parliament. A government of national incompetence is formed. A delay to Brexit is granted by the EU, again. Limbo continues, despite polls showing the UK population no longer wants Brexit in any form. PaulB1

‘The only way to resolve this is a general election and a Labour party win’

A new PM is never going to solve anything for the country. The Tories are not negotiators and any leader’s hands are still tied by the factions in their own party. The problem is we have the wrong party leading the country on Brexit and the only way to resolve this is a general election and a Labour party win. Their recent plan has been well received in Europe by Barnier and Tusk and they both described it as promising and negotiable. Their GE campaign then should be a Brexit deal and a people’s vote on the deal negotiated or the option to remain. I think that’s the way it will go. forageforfood


‘Brexit will be a poison chalice for at least three or four governments’

My bet is Theresa May will be gone soon after Trump’s visit ends - why else has her husband turned up at 10 Downing Street? I reckon it is to help pack. That means the Tories are in for a leadership contest and that means there is almost no possibility of an EU deal before November, and based on who wins that contest the UK will be granted a further extension to article 50 by the EU. Who knows? The local and EU election results could affect that decision and with any luck not to the joy of the ERG. Either way I can see the Tory party still trying to achieve Brexit one way or another, and any which way I look at it Brexit is likely to be a poison chalice for at least three or four UK governments because of the problems of instability, uncertainty, and economic damage it will cause the UK. cpp4ever

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7. From the live thread

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9m ago
09:49

It looks pretty certain that there will be a statement this morning. The lights and lectern are out and No 10 has just – apparently accidentally – sent journalists an empty email.
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9. she is now speaking

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11. She steps down the 7th of June

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13. She was in tears at the end

She helped to create this mess

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15. we have all been in tears since June 23, 2016

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16. Correct

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

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17. ugh, Peter Bone just said he is backing Boris, and so are many others

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May's going away prezzie is to babysit the orange bloat on his state visit!!!!

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12. Speaking live on Bloomberg

Tried three times.

7 Jun a meeting will happen.

A leadership selection will occur the following week.

She will serve until that process is concluded.

It will be for her successor to find the way forward, to make the UK work for everyone.

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14. Next Tory leader betting odds: Boris Johnson 'streets ahead' in race to replace Theresa May

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/next-tory-leader-betting-odds-boris-johnson-streets-ahead-in-race-to-replace-theresa-may-a4149606.html