PM May tells her lawmakers: ‘I’ll stay for as long as you want me’
British Prime Minister Theresa May has told lawmakers in her Conservative Party that she will stay as leader for as long as they want her to, one of her members of parliament said on Monday.
May apologised repeatedly for last week’s botched election result, according to a member who was present.
“She said I’m the person who got us into this mess and I’m the one who is going to get us out of it,” the lawmaker said.
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“She said she will serve us as long as we want her.”
Lawmakers added that there were no dissenting voices at the meeting and that the last thing Britain needed was another election or leadership race.
Prime Minister Theresa May also said that she wanted to build a broader consensus on Britain’s plans for leaving the European Union.
Opposition lawmakers and some within her own party have said May’s failure to win a parliamentary majority at last week’s election was a rejection by voters of her plans to make a clean break with the EU.
“The prime minister talked about wanting to build a consensus, she recognised the different views in the party on Brexit and she also recognized the need to not just reflect the party but indeed the parliament and the country,” one senior pro-EU Conservative lawmaker and former minister said after a meeting of the party’s lawmakers in parliament.
“She acknowledged, and was asked and agreed, there was going to be a broader consensus in the party, listening to all the wings of the party on Brexit.”
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