British PM Theresa May faces calls to quit within three months
LONDON (BLOOMBERG) - Theresa May must resign as British prime minister and Conservative leader later this year after delivering Brexit, according to politicians at the highest levels of her own government.
May has promised her party she will stand down before the next general election, slated for 2022, but she's likely to face pressure to go within the next three months.
Once the UK is out of the European Union, and local district elections on May 2 are over, the premier will have no reason to stay in office, one senior minister said, speaking privately.
Britain is scheduled to leave the bloc on March 29.
A person familiar with another minister's views agreed with the timescale, arguing that the prime minister should leave in the summer, so a new leader can be in place in time for the party's annual conference in October.
A third senior member of May's administration pointed out that Tories had no way of formally seeking to remove May before December under the party's internal leadership rules.
May will never voluntarily resign, despite her previous pledge, the person said.
Starting the clock on May's departure means that even if the UK leaves the EU as planned at the end of March, with a divorce agreement in place, the political uncertainty that has defined British politics since 2016 is likely to continue.
Since losing the Conservative party's ruling majority in a disastrous election campaign in 2017, May has suffered an almost uninterrupted torrent of political blows and criticism over her personal leadership and handling of Brexit.
A succession of Cabinet ministers quit in protest at May's handling of the EU negotiations, she survived a vote of no confidence in her leadership of the party and another in the government itself.
Last month, May's Brexit deal was rejected in the biggest Commons defeat for any administration in more than a century, and this week three Tories decided they could no longer stay in her party and defected to form a new group.
Last December, in the gravest crisis of her leadership, May made a promise to her party that she would not fight another general election as party leader.
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That bought her enough support to survive the vote of no confidence in her leadership of the Conservatives, although one in three Tory members of Parliament voted against her. May is now safe from a similar formal challenge from within her party until December, because party rules state that a repeat vote cannot be triggered for a year.
Yet May's own advisers believe this won't stop the party removing her if it wants to do so. For example, a delegation of Cabinet ministers could march into May's Downing Street office and tell her it is time to go.
Rival candidates to replace May are said to have begun preparing their campaigns already.
There is likely to be a crowded field of contenders with the names most frequently mentioned including Home Secretary Sajid Javid, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd. The former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, and former foreign secretary Boris Johnson are also expected to run.
British girl, 9, dies after eating ice cream on vacation in Spain: report
The British girl, who has not been publicly named, went into anaphylactic shock after having a severe allergic reaction to the dessert she ate at a shopping center in Malaga, on Spain’s Costa del Sol.<br data-cke-eol="1"> (iStock)
A 9-year-old girl has died after eating an ice cream during a family vacation in Spain.
The British girl, who has not been publicly named, went into anaphylactic shock after having a severe allergic reaction to the dessert she ate at a shopping center in Malaga, on Spain’s Costa del Sol.
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She and her parents and two siblings had been staying at the Club La Costa World, the resort confirmed.
The young girl was allergic to milk and nuts, according to Spain’s Sur newspaper. She became sick on Saturday and was rushed to the hospital, where she was put on life support but died on Monday.
Sur reported a post-mortem has been carried out and a judge has been appointed to investigate the girl’s death.
Club La Costa World’s parent company CLC World Resorts & Hotels issued a statement after the girl’s death.
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“The management at Club La Costa World resort would like to offer their heartfelt condolences to the family following the loss of their daughter on February 18, 2019,” it said. “Having eaten ice cream at a local shopping center, the 9-year-old girl suffered a severe allergic reaction. Despite the best efforts of doctors and the emergency services, the young girl was placed on life support but subsequently died. We would like to thank the emergency services for their quick and appropriate responses and our staff for the continuing support of the family at this difficult time.”
The British Foreign Office confirmed it was offering support to the family.
Last year, another young British traveler collapsed and died after suffering an allergic reaction to a sandwich she ate on a British Airways flight.
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Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, 15, collapsed on the flight from London to Nice eating an artichoke, olive and tapenade baguette she had bought from British sandwich chain Pret a Manger at Heathrow Airport.
Her father Nadim, the millionaire owner of Wow Toys in London, tried to save Natasha by giving her two doses of drugs and administering an EpiPen, but she died in hospital in France.
Nadim and his wife are now lobbying to have British food labelling laws changed so all pre-packaged products had specific allergen labelling in Britain by the end of the year.
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