Theresa May announced this morning she will stand down as Prime Minister on June 7, after months of mounting pressure over her failure to deliver Brexit. Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who arguably paved way for her departure, said he had some sympathy for Mrs May but that the Conservatives had not learned their “lessons” since the 2016 EU referendum. He wrote on Twitter: “It is difficult not to feel for Mrs May, but politically she misjudged the mood of the country and her party.
"Two Tory leaders have now gone whose instincts were pro-EU. Either the party learns that lesson or it dies."
As support for Mr Farage grows and with Mrs May out of the picture, many are wondering whether he could ever take the top job.
Betfair currently has Mr Farage ahead of Jeremy Corbyn in the race to become the next Prime Minister, with odds of 43/1 surfacing after he delivered a rousing speech to a crowd of 3,000 supports on Tuesday night.
Moreover, in a newly-resurfaced interview, the former Ukip leader said a “huge scale disappointment” could
