After almost three years of waiting for their country to leave the EU,
British voters finally saw some action. Prime Minister Theresa May
resigned as leader of the Conservative Party last week.
Her resignation has been inevitable since May failed to get Parliament
to accept a deal and was forced to delay Brexit. Still, there’s no clear
frontrunner to fill the power vacuum that will emerge as she steps
down, and whoever takes over will inherit the problems that took May
down.
One thing, however, is clear: In the next few months, her successor will
clarify whether Theresa May single-handedly and spectacularly failed at
her only job or whether delivering Brexit is a suicide mission for any
politician.
More than a few conservative hardliners are banking on the first
hypothesis — that May’s string of bad decisions were the problem.
They’re pushing to see Boris Johnson, the figurehead of the 2016 leave
campaign, take over and finish what he started.
Whoever ends up in the unenviable position will first have to handle the
fallout from the European Parliament elections. Polls show the
Conservative Party finishing in a humiliating fifth place. And with
Nigel Farage and his newly-formed Brexit Party raging toward victory,
the humiliations are likely to continue well after the results are in.
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