After nearly three years of failing to deliver Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May will officially resign today. So what happens next between the UK and the EU? CNN's LukeMcGee explains:
London Finally, Theresa May's days in office are coming to an end. The British Prime Minister is due to officially resign as leader of the governing Conservative party on Friday and the contest to replace her will begin.
After nearly three years of failing to deliver Brexit, May realized her number was up the day after last month's EU elections, in which Conservative voters flocked to the hardline, anti-EU Brexit party, led by Nigel Farage. It's fitting that on the day May was due to formally announce her resignation, the Conservatives suffered another humiliation in a byelection in Peterborough, a city north of London.
Gibraltar: Between a rock and a hard place 02:58Johnson's closest ally in the 2016 leave campaign, Michael Gove, is also gunning for the top job. Like Johnson, he believes that the EU's priority will be to get a deal approved and avoid chaos. Unlike Johnson, he has refused to commit to leaving on October 31, whatever the state of a deal. The same goes for Jeremy Hunt.
Lib Dems Leader: US-UK trade deal 'a dead duck' 09:02There are two candidates who accept that May's deal has to be the starting point of any negotiations and that everything else is for the future relationship talks. These two men are Matt Hancock, the health secretary, and Rory Stewart, the international development secretary.
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