Leadership challenge as UK Prime minister is hit with a vote of no confidence

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Just as Kalonzo warned about the deputy presidents position, indeed there are seats that if you hold prepare for all kinds of battle in order for you to survive.

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May defended her leadership outside 10 Downing Street just before 9 a.m. Wednesday, revealing that her Conservative Party had demanded a vote of confidence in her premiership amid the tumult of Britain exiting the EU.

The results of the vote will be announced at 9 p.m. Anything more than 50 percent -158 votes – will force May out of office.

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“I will contest that vote with everything I’ve got,” May said. “I have been a member of the Conservative party for over 40 years. I have served it as an activist, councilor, MP, shadow minister, home secretary and now.

She added that she was due to travel to Dublin for further negotiations on Brexit, but would remain in London to make the case for her leadership with colleagues

Since the announcement of the no-confidence vote, the story has been dominating both Google trends and the UK trends on Twitter.

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There have been more than 90,000 tweets that include “the Conservative Party” and the prime minister’s name as well as the hashtags #NoConfidence and #LeadershipChallenge.

People have been sharing their views online on Mrs May and the latest political fallout from the 2016 EU referendum result.

Since the resignation of former Brexit Secretary David Davis in the summer, May has come under increasing attack from cabinet colleagues, several of whom resigned in protest at her handling of negotiations with Europe, and a growing number of influential Conservative parliamentary members (MPs), who want to sever ties with the EU without remaining in several key EU arrangements.

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Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (L), David Davis (C)

The Conservatives’ mechanism for initiating leadership elections is triggered if 15 percent of MPs write a letter to a group called the 1922 Committee, indicating they have no confidence in the leader.

The chair of that committee issued a statement Wednesday morning saying that he had received 48 letters, enough to initiate the process, and therefore a vote will be held between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., with the results announced at 9 p.m

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