By Ben Glaze | The Mirror
PM's tears
as she announces she'll quit on June 7.
After almost three years of gridlock, Theresa May has
named her resignation date and plunged the nation into a chaotic Tory
leadership race.
Theresa May fought back tears as she
announced her resignation date today after nearly three years of
Brexit gridlock.
In a dramatic and emotional speech, the PM said she would
quit her job on June 7 - after
a UK State Visit by Donald Trump and D-Day commemorations are
safely over.
Her exit will trigger a Tory leadership contest that gets
under way next week. The rules
are here while the frontrunners
are led by Boris Johnson - who could steer Brexit in a
dramatically harder direction.
The mutiny came after Theresa May unveiled a
new compromise Brexit plan, including a possible second
referendum, in a last-gasp bid to get Brexit through Parliament.
It prompted Tory fury and forced
her to delay a June 7 vote on the deal.
Mrs May met Graham Brady, the chairman of the Tories'
backbench 1922 Committee, this morning before announcing she will resign in two
weeks.
Kevin
Maguire: Don't cry for me, cruel Theresa
Daily Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire says Britons
shouldn’t weep for teary Theresa May.
He writes: “Don’t cry for cruel Theresa when it’s her
victims who deserve our tears.
“The cracking voice was as much, or perhaps more, for the
collapse of her disastrous Premiership as the country she professes to love.
“May’s record shows little affection for the millions
whose lives she made worse.”