British PM Theresa May survives no-confidence vote triggered by members of her own party
|(CNN)UK Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a vote of no confidence triggered by members of her own party over her handling of Brexit. She won by 200 votes to 117.
The result was met with cheers from MPs as it was announced by Graham Brady, a member of Parliament who leads the 1922 Committee which represents Conservative Party backbench lawmakers in the House of Commons.
Outside Downing Street, May told reporters that it had been a “long and challenging day.”