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What happens now? Key dates ahead as British PM quits

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Here is the timetable ahead for Britains prime minister as Theresa May prepares to step down from the roleMay 24 Theresa May announces her intentio
Here is the timetable ahead for Britain’s prime minister as Theresa May prepares to step down from the role:
May 24: Theresa May announces her intention to resign as leader of the governing, centre-right Conservative Party and therefore as prime minister.
May 26-27: Results of Thursday’s UK elections to the European Parliament revealed. Opinion polls put the newly-formed Brexit Party on course to win. The Conservatives could finish as low as fifth.
May 28: Informal dinner of EU heads of state or government in Brussels to discuss the outcome of the European Parliament elections and start nominating the new heads of the EU institutions. May is expected to attend.
May 29: Date on which May will have lasted longer in office than the last Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, who was in Downing Street from 2007 to 2010. She would become Britain’s 35th-longest-serving prime minister out of 54.

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