SUNDAY TIMES WEB DESK: stunning 24-hour span saw May on Tuesday dealt the most massive drubbing by parliament in modern British political history – 432 votes to 202 – over the divorce terms she reached with Brussels.
She emerged victorious in parliament’s first no-confidence vote in a British government in 26 years on Wednesday by a 325-306 margin, a majority of 19.
But it may have only been a pyrrhic victory for the hobbled but determined premier as she tries to steer the world’s fifth-biggest economy through its biggest crisis in a generation.
The opposition Labour Party could try to oust her government again in the hope of triggering snap elections before Britain’s scheduled March 29 Brexit date.