Theresa May told to resign as prime minister in 'a matter of days'

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LONDON — Senior Conservative MPs will meet on Tuesday afternoon to discuss plans to force Theresa May out as prime minister "within a matter of days," as anger over her decision to delay Brexit boils over.

The leadership of the 1922 Committee, which represents all backbench Conservative MPs, will meet to decide whether to change party leadership rules to allow a vote of confidence in her leadership before the summer recess.

Under current rules, May is safe from such a challenge until next December after surviving a previous vote late last year.

However, Nigel Evans, the committee's joint executive secretary, told TalkRADIO on Tuesday that May's "catastrophic handling of Brexit negotiaions" meant she now had to go.

"My recommendation will be that we should say to the prime minister that she should now go as quickly as possible... and I'm talking about a matter of days now," Evans said.

By Adam Bienkov.
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