BBC: Theresa May agrees to set timetable to choose successor
Theresa May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June.
The agreement follows a meeting between the prime minister and senior Tory MPs who are demanding a date for her departure from Downing Street.
If she loses the vote on her Brexit plan, already rejected three times, sources told the BBC she would resign.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson has said he will run for leader once Mrs May goes.
The prime minister survived a confidence vote by Conservative MPs at the end of last year and party rules mean she cannot formally be challenged again until December.
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WNU Editor: The latest polls indicating that the Conservative Party would be annihilated in the next election is what probably prompted the Party leadership to tell Prime Minister May that it is now time to leave. But I still have to see it to believe it. As for the next Brexit vote, it will be defeated again.
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