‘I got us into this mess, I’ll get us out,’ Theresa May says
May tells Conservative MPs she will serve as prime minister as long as they want her
London — Theresa May told Conservative MPs on Monday she would serve as prime minister as long as they wanted her after a botched election gamble cost the party its majority in parliament and weakened Britain’s hand days before formal Brexit negotiations. With British politics thrust into the deepest turmoil since last June’s shock Brexit vote, EU leaders were left wondering how divorce talks would open next week. Despite her party’s expectations of a landslide victory May lost her majority in parliament, pushing her into rushed talks on a support agreement with a small eurosceptic Northern Irish Protestant party with 10 parliamentary seats. May faced her MPs at a meeting of the 1922 Committee on Monday. Despite anger at the election, she was cheered briefly at the start of the meeting. "She said ‘I’m the person who got us into this mess and I’m the one who is going to get us out of it’," one Conservative MP said after the meeting. "She said she will serve us as long as we want her....
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