Former UK PM Theresa May to Quit as Lawmaker

Sudan Events – Agencies 

Former British Prime Minister Theresa May will not stand for re-election, she said on Friday, ending a 27-year career in parliament marked by a tumultuous spell leading the country as it tore itself apart over Brexit.
May, 67, became the latest in a long line of Conservative Party politicians to signal their departure from parliament at an election later this year. Polls currently show the governing party is expected to lose power to the opposition Labour Party.
May became prime minister in 2016 after then-leader David Cameron resigned in the wake of Britain’s shock vote to leave the European Union. She was selected by her Conservative Party peers to implement the unprecedented decision, for which her predecessor had left no blueprint.
But she quit three years later having been unable to deliver Brexit on schedule or find a way to get parliament to approve her exit plan, handing the reins to Boris Johnson who galvanized much of the nation around his vision for Britain’s departure.
Since leaving office she has remained a member of parliament for her constituency in southeast England, but she said on Friday her focus on trying to combat modern slavery and human trafficking was taking up an increasing amount of time.