Theresa May has resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Theresa May as she resigned. NPR/Getty.

Theresa May has resigned as Prime Minster of the United Kingdom after failing to deliver on Brexit. NPR. May said that failing to accomplish Brexit would be her biggest regret after spending all three of her years as Prime Minister trying to enforce it. May became Prime Minister after the Brexit vote passed and David Cameron resigned. Boris Johnson, the former Mayor of London had been considered for the role but his run had been torpedoed by his campaign manager. May faced a massive task trying to negotiate between the EU as well as elements within her own country, including Scottish Nationalists. Her biggest mistake was to call for another election in 2017 to try and increase the Tories majority, but it failed forcing her government to join in a coalition with the Democratic Unionist party of Northern Ireland. May tried to pass an agreement with the EU concerning Ireland but failed three times roundly. 

My Comment:

No surprise here, May's tenure was hanging on by a thread. When your party promises to make a major policy change but completely fails to deliver it's not going to end well for you. Without doing Brexit there was no chance of her remaining in the role. 

May made some major mistakes, most notably the one where she called for elections when she didn't need to do so. It backfired on her spectacularly with Labor making major gains and May losing her majority. She barely managed to hang on, forming a coalition government. 

I don't think May was the right person for the job. Brexit was all about leaving the EU and May never acted like she wanted it. She did her best to try, but she was never willing to do what was needed to make sure that they left the EU. If she had just gone with a no-deal Brexit, the band-aid would have been ripped of and she's probably would have been fine. 

It's unclear who is going to replace May as Prime Minister. Boris Johnson is the front runner but who knows if that would work out. I do think that whoever it is should be someone that actually believes in Brexit. Then the people of the UK will finally gain some of their freedom back. 

As for me, I was never a fan of Theresa May. She never seemed like she like America and very obviously hated President Trump. It's possible she was personally involved in the spying on President Trump's 2016 campaign and afterwards. I sincerely hope that the next Prime Minster of the UK is more friendly to the US and actually delivers on Brexit.