UK’s May to meet Tory MPs as talk of resignation swirls
With four days to go, it remains unclear if Brexit will take place
London — British Prime Minister Theresa May will address Conservative Party MPs on Wednesday, possibly to announce her resignation date in a last throw of the dice to win support for her twice-rejected Brexit deal in parliament. May was due to speak to the party’s 1922 Committee at 5pm GMT on Wednesday, an MP of her Conservative Party said anonymously. It was “certainly a possibility” she could set her date of departure, said the MP. The political editor of The Sun newspaper said May was expected to set a date for her resignation at the meeting. Nearly three years after the 2016 EU membership referendum, and four days before Britain was supposed to leave the bloc, it remains unclear how, when or even if Brexit will take place, with parliament and the nation still bitterly divided.
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