From calling a snap general election to her failure to sell her Brexit deal, MPs and experts explain Theresa May's biggest errors as prime minister.
Theresa May will on Friday resign as Conservative leader, with a successor poised to replace her as prime minister in July.
She will leave her successor the inheritance of a bitterly divided party, historically low poll ratings and an impending political crisis as the United Kingdom once again approaches a potential no-deal Brexit in October. Then there was the prime minister herself. Much of the Conservative campaign focused on May's perceived personal qualities, with the key slogan urging voters to back her"strong and stable" leadership. However, her campaign appearances failed to live up to the message.
One pro-Brexit MP said that May's refusal to do so was a"profound mistake that had a shattering impact on the Conservative vote." "The election result destroyed her confidence as prime minister," said one Tory MP who had initially supported the prime minister's decision to call an election.Reuters The UK's lack of preparation and negotiating experience meant it was vulnerable in negotiations, giving even greater leverage to the EU than it already had as a group of 27 economies rather than one.
"It was a message: 'I'm trying to give you advice and you're not listening'," she told Business Insider. After consulting with her small team of advisors, May decided to go with the latter, and told the Conservative party's 2016 conference that the UK would leave the single market, customs union, and European Court of Justice, insisting that"Brexit means Brexit."
IFG Director Jill Rutter told Business Insider that rather than pursuing a Brexit which reflected the 52/48 referendum result, May decided to try an implement a version of the project designed to delight her most hardline pro-Leave MPs. The plan backfired spectacularly. The pro-Remain MPs it was intended to entice were not convinced and pro-Brexit MPs were absolutely furious, to the point where they launched an ultimately successful coup to get rid of her.
"You could imagine an alternative world in which she said: 'This is very close, we need to think about what this means for our country, I'm going to put out consultation documents to see what [Brexit] should look like, and when I should trigger Article 50'," said Jill Rutter.
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