सात जून को इस्तीफा देंगी PM टेरेसा मे, ब्रिटेन को मिलेगा नया प्रधानमंत्री

ब्रिटेन को जल्द ही नया प्रधानमंत्री मिलेगा. आज वर्तमान पीएम टेरेसा मे ने आगामी सात जून को पद छोड़ने का एलान कर दिया. उन्होंने ये फैसला यूरोपियन यूनियन से अलग होने के प्रयासों में मिली नाकामी के बाद लिया है. जानें क्या है पूरा मामला

टेरेसा मे (फाइल फोटो)

Published : May 24, 2019, 11:53 PM IST

लंदन: ब्रिटिश प्रधानमंत्री टेरेसा मे सात जून को कंजर्वेटिव नेता का पद छोड़ देंगी. उन्होंने खुद इस बात की घोषणा की. इसके साथ ही ब्रिटेन के नए प्रधानमंत्री को लेकर कयासों का दौर भी शुरू हो गया है.

यूरोपीय संघ से ब्रिटेन के अलग होने के लिये टेरेसा मे ने रणनीति बदलने का भी प्रयास किया. इसे लेकर उन्होंने अपनी योजनाओं को मंत्रियों से चर्चा की. हालांकि, टेरेसा मंत्रियों का साथ पाने में विफल रहीं. इसके बाद उन्होंने शुक्रवार को इस्तीफा देने की घोषणा कर दी.

टेरेसा मे ने कहा, 'हमारी राजनीति भले ही तनावपूर्ण रही हो लेकिन इस देश के बारे में काफी कुछ अच्छा है. काफी कुछ गर्व करने लायक है. कई चीजें हैं आशावादी होने के लिये.'

मे ने कहा कि देश की दूसरी महिला प्रधानमंत्री के तौर पर काम करना मेरे लिये निश्चित रूप से जिंदगी भर के लिये एक सम्मान है लेकिन निश्चित रूप से यह आखिरी नहीं है.

प्रधानमंत्री के कार्यकाल के दौरान टेरेसा मे (फाइल फोटो)

अपने संबोधन के दौरान भावुक लग रही मे ने भरे गले कहा कि जिस देश से आप प्यार करते हैं वहां के लोगों की सेवा करना एक सम्मान की बात है.

ये भी पढ़ें: ब्रिटिश PM टेरेसा मे का ब्रेक्जिट सौदा तीसरी बार खारिज

कयास लगाए जा रहे हैं कि 62 वर्षीय टेरेसा मे इस्तीफा देने के बाद भी कार्यवाहक प्रधानमंत्री बनी रहेंगी. वे बतौर कार्यवाहक PM डाउनिंग स्ट्रीट में रहती रहेंगी.

जून की शुरुआत में अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति के राजकीय दौरे के दौरान भी वे पद पर बनी रहेंगी. नए नेता के जुलाई के अंत तक पद संभालने की उम्मीद है.

प्रधानमंत्री के कार्यकाल के दौरान टेरेसा मे (फाइल फोटो)

ये भी पढ़ें: ब्रिटिश PM टेरेसा मे का ब्रेक्जिट सौदा तीसरी बार खारिज

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Britain's Brexit-beaten Theresa May announces resignation, to step down on June 7
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London, May 24 (PTI) An embattled Theresa May announced Friday that she would resign as the UK's Conservative leader on June 7 "in the best interests of the country", paving the way for a contest to decide the new Prime Minister after she failed to win over her ministers with a revised strategy to withdraw Britain from the European Union.
A visibly tearful May said she would step down as leader of the Conservative Party on June 7, with a leadership contest for a new Prime Minister to kick off the following week starting June 10. She would meanwhile stay on caretaker PM until a new incumbent has been elected by the Tories.
"I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold," the 62-year-old May said.
"The second female Prime Minister, but certainly not the last. I do so with no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love."
The outgoing Prime Minister said she had kept Queen Elizabeth II informed of her exit timetable, meaning she would be presiding over US President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK in early June.
May listed a series of what she said were her government's achievements, including tackling the deficit, reducing unemployment and boosting funding for mental health.
But she admitted: It is and will always remain a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit.
The UK was to have left the 28-member economic bloc by March 29 but failed to meet that deadline and now faces a renewed Brexit deadline of October 31.
May was expected to resign after a meeting with the chair of the Conservative Party's influential 1922 Committee of backbench MPs on Friday.
As her three-year premiership comes to a close, a new Tory leader expected to be in place by the end of July.
"I have done everything I can to convince MPs to back that [Brexit] deal. Sadly, I have not been able to do so. I tried three times," she said.
"It will be for my successor to seek a way forward that honours the result of the referendum. To succeed, he or she will have to find consensus in Parliament where I have not," May said.
UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt during a meeting with May at Downing Street on Thursday said to have expressed his dissatisfaction with her renewed attempt at getting her controversial Brexit Withdrawal Agreement Bill through the House of Commons. Hunt and number of other Cabinet ministers, including UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid, have held similar one-on-one meetings with the Prime Minister to reiterate the lack of support for the Bill despite her proposed changes.
It came as May announced her latest reshuffle after the resignation of Andrea Leadsom as Leader of the Commons earlier in the week, with Mel Stride becoming the new Commons leader.
As her three-year premiership comes to a close, a new Tory leader expected to be in place by the end of July.
May, who has been under constant pressure to step down since having survived a vote of no-confidence in December 2018, had even announced that she would set out her Downing Street exit plan once she had seen the first stage of Brexit through. However, that exit has been precipitated as it became clear that the first stage of Brexit, passage of her Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, is unlikely to go through a fourth parliamentary vote.
To add to her woes, she is also unlikely to survive the fallout from the European elections held on Thursday the results of which are expected to deliver a massive bruising for the Tories when the results unfold on Sunday.
Voters are expected to punish both the Tories and the Opposition Labour Party for being forced to vote in a European Union (EU) elections despite the June 2016 referendum in favour of Brexit.
The next stage of negotiations with the EU will be taken ahead by a new incumbent in Downing Street, with former foreign secretary Boris Johnson seen as a frontrunner from the pro-Brexit wing of the ruling party.
However, a host of other contenders are expected to throw their hat in the ring, including fellow Brexiteer Dominic Raab as well as Cabinet ministers Sajid Javid, Michael Gove, Amber Rudd and Matt Hancock. Others Tory MPs like Esther McVey and Rory Stewart have also indicated their intention to contest.
The UK Parliament has remained in deadlock since it rejected May's Brexit deal negotiated with the EU three times.
The biggest sticking point has been the Irish backstop clause, which Brexiteers believe will be used to keep Britain tied to EU rules even after Brexit.
May's attempts to find a formal compromise with the Opposition Labour benches to try and win another Commons vote also ended in failure and resulted in her adding a series of sops to her rejected deal, including the offer of a parliamentary vote on a second referendum in response to demands from a large chunk of Opposition MPs. However, the sops had the effect of only further angering her already divided Cabinet and hastened the end of her time as British PM with just under three years in power since she took charge in July 2016 weeks after the Brexit referendum. PTI AK AKJ
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