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Jeremy Corbyn shows no sympathy in response to Theresa May’s resignation
Theresa May made a tearful resignation speech on the morning of 24 May. As she expressed her “gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve a country I love”, the prime minister made a rare show of emotion as her voice cracked tearfully.
No sympathy
Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn nonetheless showed no sympathy for the outgoing prime minister, who is expected to step aside on 7 June.
In response to May’s resignation, Corbyn called for a general election:
Theresa May is right to resign. She's now accepted what the country's known for months: she can't govern, and nor can her divided and disintegrating party.
Whoever becomes the new Tory leader must let the people decide our country’s future, through an immediate General Election.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) May 24, 2019
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In a separate statement, Corbyn added:
The burning injustices she promised to tackle three years ago are even starker today.
The Conservative Party has utterly failed the country over Brexit and is unable to improve people’s lives or deal with their most pressing needs.
Parliament is deadlocked and the Conservatives offer no solutions to the other major challenges facing our country.
Indeed, a politician complicit in the following disasters deserves little sympathy:
- Sponsoring the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
- Arming Israel – which has indiscriminately murdered Palestinians – at record levels.
- Selling arms to Turkey, whose president is a war criminal.
- Supporting a coup in Venezuela.
- Presiding over the Windrush scandal and “hostile environment” policy.
- Rising poverty among children and pensioners.
- Awful handling of Brexit.
- A shameful response to the Grenfell Tower fire.
This list, of course, is not exhaustive.
May nonetheless received a somewhat sympathetic response from the BBC‘s political editor Laura Kuenssberg:
It’s always absolutely brutal watching a PM quit – May obviously absolutely devastated having fought so long and so hard
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) May 24, 2019
What next?
Conservative Party leadership elections are expected to have concluded before the end of July.
Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson is currently the bookies’ favourite. Other likely candidates are former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, as well as environment secretary Michael Gove.
With this in mind, UK politics may very well get worse before it gets any better.
Featured image via Rwendland / Flickr & Tiocfaidh ár lá 1916
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JC is right we need a general election because whoever takes over as the PM it was not that person who the people voted for in the first place in that election it was Theresa may but only held on in power due to the bribe money to the DUP our homeless problems are getting worse foodbanks are running out of food as more people use them. No social housing has been built to solve the homeless problems benefits have been frozen while prices of food go up the poverty has got to stop the windrush scandal and what about the poor people from the Grenfell still people are wanting answers I could go on and on.
He will need to stand up to Brexit and demand a second referendum if he is ever to win enough votes to become PM.