{"id":18204,"date":"2019-05-24T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18204"},"modified":"2019-05-24T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T09:45:20","slug":"theresa-may-announces-her-resignation-amid-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18204","title":{"rendered":"Theresa May announces her resignation amid tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u25aa Prime minister to leave on 7 June, drawing three-year premiership to a close<br \/>\nBy <strong>Heather Stewart<\/strong> (<strong>The Guardian<\/strong> of London)<br \/>\nTheresa May has bowed to intense pressure from her own party and named 7 June as the day she will step aside as Conservative leader, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to a close.<br \/>\nSpeaking in Downing Street, May said it had been \u201cthe honour of my life\u201d to serve as Britain\u2019s second female prime minister. Her voice breaking, she said she would leave \u201cwith no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love\u201d.<br \/>\nThe prime minister listed a series of what she said were her government\u2019s achievements, including tackling the deficit, reducing unemployment and boosting funding for mental health.<br \/>\nBut she admitted: \u201cIt is and will alway remain a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit.\u201d<br \/>\nMay\u2019s announcement came after a meeting with Graham Brady, the chair of the backbench 1922 Committee \u2013 which was prepared to trigger a second no-confidence vote in her leadership if she refused to resign.<br \/>\nHer fate was sealed after a 10-point\u00a0\u201cnew Brexit deal\u201d, announced in a speech on Tuesday, infuriated Tory backbenchers and many of her own cabinet \u2013 while falling flat with the Labour MPs it was meant to persuade.<br \/>\nThe leader of the House of Commons,\u00a0Andrea Leadsom, resigned on Wednesday, rather than present the Brexit bill to parliament.<br \/>\nA string of other cabinet ministers had also expressed concerns, including Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt, Chris Grayling and David Mundell.<br \/>\nIn particular, they rejected May\u2019s promise to give MPs a vote on a second referendum as the Brexit bill passed through parliament, and implement the result \u2013 which they felt came too close to endorsing the idea.<br \/>\nThe prime minister will remain in Downing Street, to shoulder the blame for what are expected to be dire results for her party at Thursday\u2019s European elections \u2013 and to host Donald Trump when he visits.<br \/>\nThe 1922 Committee will set out the terms of a leadership contest, to kick off on 7 June, which is expected to last perhaps six weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25aa Prime minister to leave on 7 June, drawing three-year premiership to a close By Heather Stewart (The Guardian of London) Theresa May has bowed to intense pressure from her own party and named 7 June as the day she will step aside as Conservative leader, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to a close. Speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}