UK: May to face party”s anger amid post-election tumult

Theresa May will seek to convince Conservative lawmakers on Monday that she should remain prime minister after a botched snap election gamble cost the party its majority and weakened Britain’s hand just days before formal Brexit negotiations. With British politics thrust into the deepest turmoil since last June’s shock Brexit vote, EU leaders were left […]

Theresa May will seek to convince Conservative lawmakers on Monday that she should remain prime minister after a botched snap election gamble cost the party its majority and weakened Britain’s hand just days before formal Brexit negotiations.

With British politics thrust into the deepest turmoil since last June’s shock Brexit vote, EU leaders were left wondering how divorce talks would open next week.

Despite her party’s expectations of a landslide victory May lost her majority in parliament, pushing her into rushed talks on a support agreement with a small eurosceptic Northern Irish Protestant party with 10 parliamentary seats.

May will face angry lawmakers at a meeting of the 1922 Committee later on Monday. While some members of her party have said she will have to eventually go, May is expected to stay on as prime minister at least for the coming weeks.