Theresa May Set to be UK Prime Minister as Andrea Leadsom Pulls Out of Conservative Contest

 

By Sarah Joanne Taylor | With ALASDAIR SANDFORD

Andrea Leadsom has pulled out of the Conservative Party leadership race, leaving just one candidate in the running to become the UK’s next prime minister.

“Theresa May is ideally based to implement Brexit,” she told the press.

The junior Energy Minister had been due to go head-to-head with May, who has been Home Secretary (Interior Minister) since 2010, in the contest to succeed David Cameron. The choice was going to be put to the party’s 150,000-strong membership this summer.

Leadsom read out part of a letter she had written to 1922 Committee chair Graham Brady, detailing her reasons for quitting. It will now be up to the committee to decide on a timetable for appointing a new prime minister.

“Twenty-five percent is not sufficient support to lead a strong and stable government should I win the leadership election,” she said of the backing she received from her party. Leadsom received just 84 votes to May’s 199 in the last round of voting.

She said she was pulling out “in the interests of the country.” 

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Source: euronews.