The race for leadership Tory, and to the seat of premier of the Britain, loses a new protagonist and now seems completely addressed. Undersecretary for Energy Andrea Leadsom withdrew, leaving the field free for the interior minister Theresa May, who at this point, will succeed David Cameron.
But the most sensational news of the day concerns the fact that the seat change in Downing Street will already take place on Wednesday and not on 9 September, the date previously scheduled for announcing the winner of the primaries and the changing of the guard at the top of the party and government . The outgoing Premier David Cameron himself announced it: “We will have a new minister in this building after me on Wednesday evening”. Cameron added that the same day, after questions in Parliament, he will present his resignation to the queen.
May, who in the Brexit campaign had stood out for her timid support for the cause of Remain, was the great favorite, in the two-way race with Leadsom, to become the second female prime minister in British history, twenty-six years after Margaret Thatcher.
Barring improbable twists and turns, Leadsom's withdrawal definitively closes the issue, even if the procedure is being examined by the 1922 Committee, the body that regulates the Tory's internal rules.
It should be underlined that, in the event that Theresa May becomes Prime Minister within the next week, there could also be an acceleration of the process which will lead to the exit of the United Kingdom from the EU.
