The British premier, Theresa May, said she regrets not delivering the Brexit, blaming it for the results of the European Elections, which uplifted the Brexit Party and the UKIP at expense of the conservative party.
“While I’ve been Prime Minister, I’ve been to something like 15 meetings or more and, in every one of those, I’ve been working hard to negotiate the best possible deal for the UK in leaving the European Union and it’s a matter of great regret to me that I haven’t been able to deliver Brexit," she said.
In her first public appearance since she resigned, May expressed her hopes that her successor will find a "consensus" and deliver the Brexit and cautioned against leaving the European Union without a deal. She highlighted that her successor may need to compromise since it requires getting a majority in parliament.
May, who was having a meeting at Brussels, declined to comment about the statements of some of her potential successors, who said that the United Kingdom should leave the union on October 31, with or without a deal.
"There will be a process of selecting my successor as leader of the Conservative party but I continue to have the view that it’s best for the UK to leave with a deal," she said.
May decided to resign after her last attempt to push her deal in the parliament and after the British people went to the polls in order to elect their representatives for the European Parliament. The Brexit party got 29 seats, becoming the largest British party in the European Parliament, followed by the Liberal Democratic party (a pro-remain party), which got 16 seats.
“Of course the European election results were deeply disappointing for the party,” she said, adding that these results show the importance of delivering the Brexit.