Theresa May keeps PM job

British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday to remain in office.

May won a victory, 325 votes to 306 votes, on an opposition motion seeking to topple her government and trigger a general election.

After winning the vote, May said she would hold talks in a constructive spirit with leaders of opposition parties and other lawmakers, starting immediately, in a bid to find a way forward for Britain’s EU exit.

Legislators ripped up May’s Brexit blueprint Tuesday by rejecting the divorce agreement she has negotiated with the EU over the last two years. That it would lose was widely expected, but the scale of the rout — 432 votes to 202, the biggest defeat government defeat in British parliamentary history — was devastating for May’s leadership and her Brexit deal.

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