Theresa May to face vote of no confidence

International Desk: UK Prime Minister Theresa May faces a vote of confidence in her leadership later after 48 of her Conservative MPs called for one to be held.

But a defiant Mrs May vowed to contest the vote "with everything I have got".

She warned that a new prime minister would be faced with the choice of "delaying or even stopping Brexit".

A majority of Tory MPs have publicly said they will back the PM in the vote, which runs for two hours from 18:00 GMT, but it is a secret ballot.

Mrs May is expected to address a meeting of backbench Conservative MPs just before voting begins - and a party spokesman suggested part of her message would be that the vote was not "about who leads the party into the next election", but about whether now was the right time for a change. _BBC

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