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UK's May announces June 7 resignation date
By EUobserver
British prime minister Theresa May announced on Friday she would be resigning on June 7, following her failure three times to get the Brexit withdrawal bill through parliament. "I have done everything I can to convince MPs to back that deal ... sadly I have not been able to do so." Her departure fires the starting gun on a Conservative party leadership contest, with Boris Johnson a heavy favourite.