Theresa May is set to join the ranks of Conservative prime ministers who's time in office has been overwhelmed and cut short by the issue of Europe.
FILE - In this Monday, March 11, 2019 file photo, British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after a media conference at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 May announced that she intends to stand down after Britain leaves the European Union. She is the latest Conservative prime minister to be swamped by issues relating to Europe.
All of Heath’s Conservative successors in 10 Downing Street — Margaret Thatcher, John Major and David Cameron — have been swamped by Europe. On Wednesday, May told lawmakers from her own party that she will step down once she has secured Britain’s departure from the European Union. Though the actual Brexit date remains clouded in mystery, few expect May to last more than a few more months.
In October 1971, the House of Commons voted by a margin of 356 votes to 244 to join the EEC in 1973, with a sizeable chunk of Heath’s own party voting against. Though Heath and the Conservatives were voted out of office a year later after an economic crisis, his passionate pro-European stance weighed against him when Thatcher challenged him for the party’s leadership in 1975.
In a 1988 speech, Thatcher rejected the prospect of a “European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.” Not everyone in her party was that hostile, and Thatcher’s growing antipathy to Europe prompted the 1990 resignation of her deputy.
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