May faces calls to quit within 3 months

Bloomberg

Theresa May must resign as British prime minister and Conservative leader later this year after delivering Brexit, according to politicians at the highest levels of her own government.
May has promised her party she will stand down before the next general election, slated for 2022, but she’s likely to face pressure to go within the next three months. Once the UK is out of the European Union, and local district elections on May 2 are over, the premier will have no reason to stay in office, one senior minister said, speaking privately. Britain is scheduled to leave the bloc on March 29.
A person familiar with another minister’s views agreed with the timescale, arguing that the prime minister should leave in the summer, so a new leader can be in place in time for the party’s annual conference in October.
A third senior member of May’s administration pointed out that Tories had no way of formally seeking to remove May before December under the party’s internal leadership rules. May will never voluntarily resign, despite her previous pledge, the person said.
Starting the clock on May’s departure means that even if the UK leaves the EU as planned at the end of March, with a divorce agreement in place, the political uncertainty that has defined British politics since 2016 is likely to continue.
Since losing the Conservative party’s ruling majority in a disastrous election campaign in 2017, May has suffered an almost uninterrupted torrent of political blows and criticism over her personal leadership and handling of Brexit. A succession of Cabinet ministers quit in protest at May’s handling of the EU negotiations, she survived a vote of no confidence in her leadership of the party and another in the government itself. Last month, May’s Brexit deal was rejected in the biggest Commons defeat for any administration in more than a century, and this week three Tories decided they could no longer stay in her party and defected to form a new group.