A Brexit discussion breakdown has Theresa May drafting her own exit plan

The Brexit disaster somehow just got worse.

Two years' worth of discussions over how Britain should exit the European Union collapsed on Friday with a letter from Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to Prime Minister Theresa May saying the talks "have gone as far as they can." May quickly criticized Corbyn for making discussions "difficult," but she's now the one left to plan a timetable for her promised resignation, BBC reports.

Britain voted to leave the EU back in 2017, but has since found it impossible to actually make that happen. May has introduced proposal after proposal to Parliament in an effort to preserve a trade deal with the EU before a previously planned March deadline, and each one has been promptly voted down. That moved Corbyn's party to officially start calling for a referendum vote on the entirety of Brexit in February. The EU eventually agreed to let Britain stay in the trading bloc until Oct. 31 as it continued to try to work out a deal, and May has a vote on her fourth plan scheduled for June.

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If that proposal fails — and it probably will — May has promised to step down as prime minister. A day before Corbyn declared the end of Brexit dealings, May agreed to Conservatives' demands and started laying out a timetable for her own exit. Ex-Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, who's generally to the right of May, has already said he'll run for her spot.