Theresa May
will still be British leader at the end of this year, finance minister Philip
Hammond said on Thursday.
May's future
is unclear after her botched gamble on a snap election left her Conservative
Party short of a majority in parliament. [nL8N1JI22N]
Asked by BBC
television if he believed May would remain premier into 2018, despite presiding
over a minority government, Hammond replied: "Yes I do."
"I
would remind you that when we formed the coalition (with the Liberal Democrats)
in 2010 people... were saying then 'Oh it won't last till Christmas'. But it
proved extraordinarily resilient," Hammond said.
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