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so don't you see. the european election in 26 g.w. . this is g.w. news live from berlin and the future of british prime minister theresa may hangs in the balance may has been under pressure from with print in her own conservative party over her failure to deliver pregnant waiting for her to make a statement outside 10 downing street. also coming up in state she was voting in the commercial european parliament elections voters in the czech republic and
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ireland go to the polls and what could be the most importantly you election in 4 decades. plus he's won a landslide victory now india's prime minister must make good on his promises after a divisive campaign there and hermione pledges to unite the country and quote unleash its potential. i'm welcome to the program we begin in the u.k. amid growing speculation that british prime minister theresa may is about to make now announce a timeline for her resignation may seen here casting on thursday casting her vote in the european parliamentary election has been under growing pressure to quit over her failure to get m.p.'s to back her brags that deal with the e.u. she's currently in a meeting with her party's backbench committee that's why. they thought to be
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a showdown porter say may is being told leave soon or face a leadership challenge. and we're going to joined now by our correspondent bob of asal who's in london bob we're expecting to hear from theresa may shortly will we be getting a resignation. everyone in london except expects this morning and it is all over the british media every headline carries that may's d. minus is imminent because she has been under growing pressure for days even a day on the day before the european election as some in a party tried to push her out as quickly as possible hoping to garner a few for the voters down that didn't work out however today is the last day she can go by her own will sort of leave it was a certain some remnants of dignity left that's what a party is telling her and so we all waiting for her to take out the occasion and
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finally after so many false. floor threats against her and and best things that didn't come through is she all was long on that she will today take the jump and say ok i can't do this anymore it's over. this is she seen this wave of opposition from within her own party not to mention the opposition parties who looks likely to succeed her if this doesn't happen. i was name starts with a b. and he is known in georgia as boris all over britain that's boris johnson of course who was a candidate to during the last time when theresa may then came into office and who wants this top job as much as he has ever wanted anything in his life he is driven by a lot of the sort of ego ambition and many in the party say we don't like it publicly in the party in the in the parliamentary party the colleagues who know him
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they also know his failings and so they are not very keen on johnson to follow because they don't trust him also they know that he might push for hard bricks it just so them the door and the european union and take britain out and that's another aspect that there is a majority against that and problem and however among the party grassroots boris johnson is the frontrunner he him uses people a sink he's sort of flattened they think he's a he's a figure which he certainly is and so he might make it through the house things and in the end emerge victorious but of course this is a large field pretty much every man woman and their dogs are going to stand as the for the top job in britain after trees may has announced her resignation. to the big question mark hanging over all of this now is what does this mean for braggs it may was not able to deliver on it so far is it any you as at any chance the next
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person is going to be any more successful the next person is supposedly not going to be any more successful and. oh right through the door behind me is prime minister i have striven to make the united kingdom a country that works not just for a privileged few but for everyone. and to all of the result of the e.u. referendum. back in 2016 we gave the british people a choice against all predictions the british people voted to leave the european union. i feel a certain today as i did 3 years ago that in a democracy if you give people a choice you have a duty to implement what they decide i have done my best to do that a negotiated the terms of our exit and a new relationship with our closest neighbors protect jobs our security and our union i have done everything i can to convince m.p.'s to back that deal
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sadly i have not been able to do so i tried 3 times i believe it was right to persevered even when the odds against success seems high but it is now clear to me that is it it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort so i am today announcing that i will resign as leader of the conservative and unionist party on friday the 7th of june so that a successor can be chosen i've agreed with the party chairman and with the chairman of the 922 committee that the process for electing a new leader should begin in the following week. i have kept her majesty the queen fully informed of my intentions and i will continue to serve as her prime minister until the process has concluded. it is and will always remain a matter of deep regret to me that i have not been able to deliver breck's it. will
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be for my successor to seek a way forward that on as the result of the referendum. to succeed he or she would have to find consensus in parliament where i have not. such a consensus can only be reached if those on all sides of the debate are willing to compromise. for many years the great humanitarian nicholas winton who saved the lives of hundreds of children by arranging their evacuation from nazi occupied czechoslovakia through the kindertransport was my constituent in maidenhead at another time of political controversy a few years before his death he took me to one side at a local event and gave me a piece of advice he said never forget that compromise is not a dirty word life depends on compromise he was right as
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we strive to find the compromises we need in our politics whether to deliver breck's it or to restore devolved government in northern ireland we must remember what brought us here. because the referendum was not just a call to leave the e.u. but for profound change in our country a call to make the united kingdom a country that truly works for everyone. i'm proud of the progress we have made over the last 3 years we have completed the work that david cameron and george osborne started the deficit is almost eliminated our national debt is falling and we are bringing an end to all star ity my focus has been on ensuring that the good jobs of the future will be created in communities across the whole country not just in london and to the southeast through our modern industrial strategy. we have helped more people than ever enjoy the security of a job we are building more homes and helping 1st time buyers on the housing ladder
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so young people can enjoy the opportunities their parents did. and we are protecting the environment eliminating plastic waste tackling climate change and improving air quality. this is what a decent moderate and patrick conservative government on the common ground of british politics can achieve even as we tackle the biggest peacetime challenge any government has faced. i know that the conservative party can renew itself in the years ahead that we can deliver bricks it and serve the british people with policies inspired by our values security freedom and opportunity those values have guided me throughout my career. but the unique privilege of this office is to use this platform to give a voice to the voiceless to fight the burning injustices that still scar our
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society that is why i put proper funding for mental health at the heart of our n.h.s. long term plan it's why i am ending the postcode lottery for survivors of domestic abuse it is why the race disparity audit and gender pay reporting are shining a light on inequality so it has nowhere to hide. and it is why i set up the independent public inquiry into the tragedy of grenfell tower to search for the truth so nothing like it can ever happen again and so the people who lost their lives that night are never forgotten because this country is a union not just a family of 4 nations but a union of people all of us whatever our backgrounds the color of our skin or who we love we stand together and together we have a great future. our politics may be under strain but there is so much that is
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good about this country so much to be proud of so much to be optimistic about. i will shortly leave the job that it has been the honor of my life to hold. the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last. i do so with no ill will but with enormous i'm doing during gratitude to a part of the opportunity to serve the country. and emotional farewell there from british prime minister theresa may who has announced she will in fact step down from her post on june 7th following her failure to deliver a briggs it's a deal amicable divorce of sorts between britain and the e.u. so for more now we have our correspondent bob out of his all in london and i'm
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joined now in the studio by alex forrest whiting our present analyst oh it's a start with you just give me your 1st impressions right off the top what does this mean well 1st of all at the very end that was to resume a clearly emotional breaking down having to sentence someone back into downing street this is something that she has been asked to do by her conservative m.p.'s have his for months now and finally she has as we say folded on his sword she has given them what they wanted and she has decided that she cannot stay any longer so she's not stepping down straight away she will step down on the 7th of june and that then leads the way for her replacement and for that battle between who will replace replace her to start a visit to you in london we've just heard theresa may statement she is stepping down not quite yet why didn't she just immediately leave what is stopping her there
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. because she still wants to do the trump visit and the meeting off the heads of state and government around to d.-day in the 1st week of june in normandy so those are supposed to be her last of fishel acts as she had to be known beforehand that she didn't want to see like running away that she wouldn't want to do is somewhat dignified and so the she's going to still take part in those 2 big occasions and then already on the weekend a few days earlier than we had expected here in london as she was going to make way for the competition for her successor to begin so that obviously is the compromise that she could make was the party and we know that she had this morning met was saddam's brady who is the foreman off the all menace backbencher 1922 committee that really holds the power in the parliamentary conservative party and obviously
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that was some dealing going on to reason may got this last reprieve but then she's going to be gone after the 1st weekend in june and alex to you in the studio why now she tried 3 times to get briggs it through 4th time got cancelled why yeah i mean. just picking up on what bob or was saying about that important 922 committee that committee of conservative bench m.p.'s many of whom have been calling for her to go a one of the the leaders of that committee has tweeted a thank you to recent 911 conservative m.p. thank you to reason right decision to allow a new leader to take us to a new bricks into arrangement without handing them a toxic baton of the withdrawal arrangement bill time to refresh the paunchy a move on to deliver a focus on britain's future and that is why because earlier this week she had wanted even today to be able to put upon them and deal the withdrawal. bill
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however it helps set so many m.p.'s in her own party because it was a sop to the opposition labor party saying that there will be the possibility of a 2nd referendum and also promising much closer ties with europe over this customs union and that's what they didn't like and that is why m.p.'s were clamoring for her to go including the resignation that we had on wednesday the leader of the house of commons andrea lead some of brick city here who stood by throughout this time then saying i cannot do this anymore so that is why the writing was on the war cabinet saying this can't go on and you have to go so now the question to you alex what happens next who's next what's next what does this mean for greggs it on the u.k. side well 1st of all who's next will we know that there are various candidates who have already put their name into the ring the most famous being boris johnson the former foreign secretary but they're all of those 2 and there will be a whole between them when this actually starts going in the middle of june.

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