May Backtracks on Vote as Pressure to Go Mounts: Brexit Update
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Theresa May is on her way out -- the only question is when she’ll go -- and her party is bracing for a humiliating defeat in European elections on Thursday.
Key Developments:
May’s Brexit legislation isn’t listed for debate in the first week of June as promised, but the government says it still hopes to put it to Parliament that week
EU elections are under way. Results on Sunday night. Polls during the campaign have shown May’s party could get less than 10% of vote
May names Mel Stride as leader of the Commons, replacing Andrea Leadsom
Telegraph newspaper tells May to go, saying it’s a national emergency
Pound falls as investors brace for a hardline Brexiteer to succeed May
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