{"id":9579,"date":"2019-05-24T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T10:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2019-05-24T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T10:30:01","slug":"watch-theresa-may-to-resign-as-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/05\/24\/watch-theresa-may-to-resign-as-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Theresa May to resign as prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theresa May has said she will quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving the way for a contest to decide a new prime minister, the BBC reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In an emotional statement in Downing St, she said she had &#8220;done my best&#8221; to honour the 2016 EU referendum result.<\/p>\n<p>It would remain a matter of &#8220;deep regret&#8221; that she had been unable to deliver Brexit, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs May said she will continue to serve as prime minister while a Conservative leadership contest takes place.<\/p>\n<p>She will step down as Tory leader on 7 June and a leadership contest is due to begin the following week.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister has faced a backlash from her MPs against her latest Brexit plan, which included concessions aimed at attracting cross-party support.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Leadsom quit as Commons leader on Wednesday saying she no longer believed it would &#8220;deliver on the referendum result&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In her statement on Friday, she said that in order to deliver Brexit, her successor would have to build agreement in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such a consensus can only be reached if those on all sides of the debate are willing to compromise,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch her statement below:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 618px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9579-1\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BREAKING-Tearful-May-announces-resignation.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BREAKING-Tearful-May-announces-resignation.mp4\">https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BREAKING-Tearful-May-announces-resignation.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theresa May has said she will quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving the way for a contest to decide a new prime minister, the BBC reported on Friday. In an emotional statement in Downing St, she said she had &#8220;done my best&#8221; to honour the 2016 EU referendum result. It would remain a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9582,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions\/9582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}