U.K.'s Conservatives Want May Out by Next Election, Poll Shows
- Only a third of Tories want prime minister to fight next time
- Foreign secretary Boris Johnson is favorite to succeed her
British Prime Minister Theresa May
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Members of Theresa May’s Conservative Party don’t agree about exactly when the prime minister should quit, but they think it should be before the next election.
May, whose disastrous campaign this year saw the Tories unexpectedly lose seats, said in an interview published Thursday that her decision to call the snap election had caught her own party by surprise and a YouGov Plc poll of Conservative members in Friday’s Times suggests they haven’t forgiven her.