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May's Whips desert her. Cabinet to remove her.


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2019 Mar 23, 10:59am   732 views  1 comment

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One by one they told that her deal would never get through unless Tory MPs received guarantees about the future leadership of the party. The message was clear from the custodians of her government: She had to go. “It was like the Murder on the Orient Express,” a source said.

Yet May was unmoved, expressing her belief that her departure would not make any difference to the success of her deal. The despairing whips left the meeting convinced that she would not do the one thing they believed would help persuade Brexiteer rebels to switch.

The extraordinary showdown occurred, BuzzFeed News can reveal, as cabinet ministers openly plot this weekend to oust May as prime minister.

In phone calls and meetings over the last two days, several of May’s most senior ministers discussed jointly telling her she has to resign if she cannot get her Brexit deal through the Commons next week. One cabinet minister told colleagues the PM has “days” left in Number 10.

The ministers said they cannot stay in the government if either a long extension to Article 50 or a softer Brexit becomes UK policy over the next two weeks, and indicated they would seek to bring May down if such a scenario became reality.

These ministers are said to include Remain voters who now back Brexit including Gavin Williamson, Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss, and Sajid Javid, as well as Leave voters including Andrea Leadsom. “Theresa would be facing a large-scale walkout the likes of which have never been seen before,” a source familiar with the discussions between the ministers said.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/cabinet-ministers-are-plotting-to-oust-theresa-may-as-her

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