PressTV-UK’s May ‘irritated’ by debate over her leadership

British Prime Minister Theresa May has admitted that she gets “irritated” by the ongoing debate over her leadership as some Tory MPs openly discuss how to overthrow her.

May made the remarks in an interview on the BBC’s Panorama to mark the six-month countdown before Britain’s official departure from the European Union.

“I get a little bit irritated but this debate is not about my future, this debate is about the future of the people of the UK and the future of the United Kingdom,” May said when asked if she would stay in the job as the Troy MPs suggested “she is a disaster” and “this can’t go on.”

“That’s what I’m focused on and that’s what we should all be focused on,” she added.

May was also angry over what former foreign secretary Boris Johnson had said about her Brexit plan last week.

Johnson compared May’s Brexit blueprint to wrapping a “suicide vest around the British constitution” and handing the…

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