Theresa May says she will step down as prime minister after she 'delivers Brexit'
By William Booth and William Booth London bureau chief Email Bio Follow Karla Adam Karla Adam London correspondent covering the United Kingdom Email Bio Follow March 27 at 2:03 PM LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May told her Conservative Party lawmakers Wednesday that she would step down before the next phase of Brexit negotiations, offering up her leadership post to convince hardliners to pass her unpopular plan to exit the European Union.
After May’s earlier promise of a tentative, slow-motion resignation, the Parliament was set to vote Wednesday night on what kind of Brexit the fractious, quarreling, paralyzed lawmakers want.It is also possible that a way forward might emerge in a series of “indicative” votes for or against a “soft” or “hard” exit from the European Union.
The votes that begin Wednesday will be nonbinding. May has said she is willing to hear what the lawmakers have to say, while at the same time she worries the votes will stoke a constitutional crisis. May’s government opposed the voting scheme but is too weak to stop it. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament on Wednesday that May had a “very clear choice . . . either listen and change course — or go.”
During lively Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, May told a fellow Conservative lawmaker who has voted twice against her deal: “We can guarantee delivering on Brexit if this week he and others in this House support the deal.”
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