The leader of the party automatically becomes the prime minister. Multiple media reports said she intends to resign as leader of the Conservative Party within weeks but continue as caretaker prime minister until the party elects a new leader. The humiliating spectacle of the prime minister detailing her departure date follows a toxic response to her latest Brexit plan this week from cabinet colleagues and Tory MPs. In her resignation letter Leadsom told the prime minister she no longer believed that her approach would deliver on the 2016 referendum result to leave the EU. The Conservatives are expected to fare similarly badly in this week's European Parliament elections when the results are announced late Sunday.

Source: Bangkok Post May 24, 2019 07:47 UTC