Theresa May’s Great Brexit Surrender

After tangling with EU president Jean-Claude Juncker in their first Downing Street encounter, May puts the EU on notice:

“During the Conservative Party leadership campaign I was described by one of my colleagues as a ‘difficult woman.’ And I said at the time the next person to find that out will be Jean-Claude Juncker.”

—May 2017

May, a Remain supporter, indicates a hard Brexit stance as a Conservative leadership candidate:

“Brexit means Brexit and we’re going to make a success of it.”

—July 2016

With her deal thrashed twice in Parliament, May insists that Brexit Day will still be March 29:

“I’m clear that I am going to deliver Brexit. I am going to deliver it on time.”

—February 2019

In another failed bid to get hard Brexiteers to vote for her deal, May says that she will step down after delivering Brexit:

“I know there is a desire for a new approach —and new leadership —in the second phase of the Brexit negotiations, and I won’t stand in the way of that.”