Lawmakers in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party on Wednesday triggered a confidence vote in her leadership after Britain’s planned divorce from the European Union was plunged into chaos.
Graham Brady, the chairman of the party’s so-called 1922 committee, said the threshold of 15 percent of the parliamentary Conservative Party seeking a confidence vote had been reached.
With less than four months left until the United Kingdom is due to exit on March 29, the world’s fifth largest economy was tipping toward crisis, opening up the prospect of a disorderly no-deal or a reversal of Brexit through a referendum.