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World | December 31, 2019 20:47 ISTGone are the times when a woman had to be 'behind' a successful man.
Gone are the times when a woman had to be 'behind' a successful man.
Andrew Strauss and Geoffrey Boycott were given knighthoods in former Prime Minister Theresa May's resignation honors list.
Brexit hardliner Boris Johnson is next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He replaces Theresa May, who announced her resignation last month.
The frontrunner throughout the contest has been the 55-year-old ex-London mayor as the Conservative Party's over 160,000 members ACROSS the UK filed in their postal votes to decide between him and the current foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.
British Prime Minister Theresa May hosted a reception at 10 Downing Street on Monday night for the team that beat New Zealand in the final at Lord's Cricket Ground, London.
Theresa May, who has been Prime Minister for nearly three years since she took over from David Cameron in the wake of the June 2016 Brexit referendum, will formally resign in a letter to the 1922 Committee of Tory Backbench MPs.
Theresa May conducted her final public tour as British Prime Minister on Thursday with a visit to Normandy in France to mark the 75th anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings.
During a joint news conference with May on Tuesday, Trump had said, "everything is on the table" in future discussions between the countries. But he told Piers Morgan in an interview for ITV's Good Morning Britain that he did not "see it being on the table".
Trump and May will start the day by co-hosting a breakfast meeting of British and American business leaders at St James's Palace in a bid to boost trade links, the BBC reported.
Britain's outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May spoke to her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on his election victory, discussing a range of issues including the G20 Summit in Japan next month and the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 in England.
"It is and will always remain a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit," May said, in a statement outside her Downing Street residence.
"When the Withdrawal Agreement Bill comes before MPs, it will represent a new, bold offer to MPs across the House of Commons, with an improved package of measures that I believe can win new support," Theresa May wrote.
Sir Graham Brady, who chairs the influential backbench 1922 Committee of the Conservative Party, told the BBC that he expects a "clear understanding" of May’s departure timetable once she has met the committee on Wednesday.
"We deeply regret what happened and the suffering caused," Theresa May told the British parliament, as India prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of the killings.
Nearly 30 ministers have quit so far from May's government to vote against her deal.
The House of Commons voted 286-344 against the withdrawal agreement struck between Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU.
Theresa May on Wednesday bowed to mounting pressure from within her own Conservative Party and offered to resign as UK Prime Minister if her MPs agreed to back her twice-defeated Brexit divorce bill to get it over the line in a third parliamentary vote.
"I hope we can all agree, we are now at the moment of decision. And in doing so we must confront the reality of the hard choices before us," May said.
There is unlikely to be a majority in favour of a no-deal chaotic Brexit, which would then give way to a third parliamentary motion on Thursday to determine if the Brexit deadline of March 29 needs to be extended, which would then have to be ratified by the EU.
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said the only talks that mattered now were “between the government in London and the Parliament in London”, indicating very little scope for concessions from the EU side ahead of Tuesday's vote.
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