Over a year ago, Ms May, then Prime Minister, announced she would resign and not take Britain forward in the next phase of Brexit negotiations. It came after she suffered a string of Brexit deal defeats in the House of Commons, effectively locking the UK in a bind.

A combination of pressure within her own party and the fact she was not a democratically elected Prime Minister resulted in her being held in poor regard in politics and public.

Eventually calling an election in 2017 after refusing to do so for nine months, Ms May was forced to broker a deal with Northern Irelands Democratic Unionist Party after a hung Parliament ensued.

In April 2019, it was announced that leaders of 70 Conservative Associations had signed a petition calling for a vote of no confidence in Ms May.

Just one month later, Ms May confirmed that she would be resigning as leader in the following month of June.

It was nothing short of a calamitous period as Prime Minister, achieving little.

During his Oxford Union address in February, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, said just as much, revealing how Ms May had met so many dead ends she turned to the trade unions in hope of support from somewhere.

It was the first time since Margaret Thatcher, who led the UK from 1979 to 1990, that a Conservative Prime Minister had engaged with a trade union.

Mr McCluskey said: The first Tory Prime Minister I spoke to since Thatcher decreed that no Conservative Prime Minister should talk to the unions - was Theresa May.

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It has been rejected by the House of Commons three times. Its demise is testament to the Prime Ministers failure to act as a national rather than a Party leader.

Her efforts to reach out beyond the ranks of the Tory hard right have been too little and too late.

Shortly after during his Oxford Union address, Mr McCluskey revealed how he thought the Labour Party should have stayed in line with its initial Brexit strategy - that it would take the Uk out of the EU.

He said:That Labour slide into being a perceived Remain party gave us some real problems in our northern and midlands heartlands.

There was a feeling of betrayal over Brexit.

Ive been trying for over a year to stop the Labour leadership from allowing the party to be pushed to abandon our 2017 election pledges.

Wed gone then to the electorate on the basis of respecting the 2016 referendum and pledging to take us out of the European Union if wed won.

We shouldve stuck with that while setting up about winning over Remainers.

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