British Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a confidence vote among her fellow Tory MPs.
She will remain at Number 10 Downing for now and is immune from another such challenge for a year.
But May is merely forestalling the inevitable. May has already indicated she will not seek re-election in 2022 effectively making her a lame duck. There's no way Parliament will ever ratify the Brexit deal. If they did then her successor would be stuck with her deal. There's no upside for the Tories to get behind May's efforts to ratify her negotiations.
If May is smart she will bow out soon and hand the ball to some other Tory. But like most politicians she enjoys the trappings of power and is not eager to surrender the keys to Number 10 Downing. Unfortunately, the longer May sticks around then stronger Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party become. If a new Tory leader can succeed where May failed then he or she will save Britain from Corbyn and a government which tolerates and encourages anti-Semitism. Of course, even if May comes to her senses there is no guarantee Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg will be any more successful in extricating Britain from the EU.
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