By Sarah Joanne Taylor | With ALASDAIR SANDFORD
Andrea Leadsom has pulled out of the Conservative Party leadership
race, leaving just one candidate in the running to become the UK’s next
prime minister.
“Theresa May is ideally based to implement Brexit,” she told the press.
The junior Energy Minister had been due to go head-to-head with May,
who has been Home Secretary (Interior Minister) since 2010, in the
contest to succeed David Cameron. The choice was going to be put to the
party’s 150,000-strong membership this summer.
Leadsom read out part of a letter she had written to 1922 Committee
chair Graham Brady, detailing her reasons for quitting. It will now be
up to the committee to decide on a timetable for appointing a new prime
minister.
“Twenty-five percent is not sufficient support to lead a strong and
stable government should I win the leadership election,” she said of the
backing she received from her party. Leadsom received just 84 votes to
May’s 199 in the last round of voting.
She said she was pulling out “in the interests of the country.”
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Source: euronews.
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