British Prime Minister Theresa May withstood a parliamentary “no confidence” vote on Wednesday keeping, for now at least, her efforts for a U.K. exit from the European Union on track, if not any less contentious and fragile.
The results of the vote, tallied shortly after 9 p.m. U.K. time, were 200 for May; 117 against. The prime minister successfully wooed a majority of her often-skeptical Conservative Party colleagues, in part, by announcing that she would step down from her post prior to 2022 elections. The vote, seen as a strong (although not necessarily forceful) validation of May’s efforts, was of a large enough margin to eliminate the possibility that she might garner a majority of support, yet still resign if that margin was near a 50 percent threshold.
