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Former British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced she is standing down as an MP at the next election.
“It has been an honour and a privilege to serve everyone in the Maidenhead constituency as the Member of Parliament for the last 27 years,” May said in a statement to the Maidenhead Advertiser on Friday.
May becomes the 63rd Tory MP — and the most senior — to announce they will not be standing again at the 2024 election.
Citing her increasing workload, including anti-slavery advocacy, she said: “I have realised that, looking ahead, I would no longer be able to do my job as an MP in the way I believe is right and my constituents deserve.”
“I have therefore taken the difficult decision to stand down at the next General Election,” she added.
May was elected as the Conservative MP for Maidenhead in 1997. She succeeded David Cameron as Britain’s prime minister from 2016 to 2019, with much of her premiership consumed by the U.K.’s withdrawal from the EU after the Brexit vote.
After surviving multiple votes of no confidence, May announced her resignation and left office in July 2019, remaining in the House of Commons as a backbencher.
This is a developing story.
