Michael O'Leary, the outspoken pro-EU chief executive of budget airline Ryanair, recently joined a growing number of critics who feel Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit negotiations are "going nowhere." "They are a bit of a shambles, and they need a bit of leadership," O'Leary told Sky News. Ahead of May's much-anticipated Brexit speech in Florence on Friday, speculation is mounting over whether the under-pressure prime minister or a rival inside her Conservative party could try to provide that leadership. "She's fatally compromised herself with the party, and the party is not a sympathetic organization," Usherwood told dpa. It would take a "pretty astounding turnaround" for May to remain the long-term leader, he said.

Source: The China Post September 19, 2017 05:37 UTC