British Prime Minister Teresa May – just under three years into the job – says she will step down on June 7.



This follows a hammering, from both sides of the house, over her clumsy handling of the Brexit process. She has lost countless votes in Parliament over a Brexit deal and was seen by many in politics as weak and dithering. It is ironic that May herself voted to keep Britain in Europe, only to see her career expire as she struggled to make the opposite happen.



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Her heartfelt farewell speech on the steps of Number 10
Downing Street concluded that she had done her best to make Britain a better
place not merely for the privileged few, but also for the whole population.



The supreme irony is that her shuffling off of the Prime
Minister’s job will see the shuffling in one of Britain’s best known members of
the privileged few. Eton and Oxford educated Boris Johnson is likely to step in
as leader of May’s Conservative party ahead of what surely is going to be a
snap election. &nbsp;&nbsp;

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May Will Be Gone In June Ending Months Of Political Battering And Speculation