Theresa May vows to win the General Election in 2022 and remain at No10 as long as Margaret Thatcher
Theresa May will lay out her Campaign 2022 speech at the Tory annual conference 24 hours after Boris Johnson pitches to 1,000 members at a fringe event on Tuesday
THERESA May will attempt to slay imminent leadership challenges by telling her party: “I’ll win you the next election.”
The PM will set out her Campaign 2022 speech at the Tory annual conference just 24 hours after Boris Johnson makes a pitch to the grassroots faithful.
Mrs May’s address will in part look beyond Brexit day next March and appeal to “people who work hard and do the right thing”, sources said.
The move indicates she is keen to lead the country into the middle of the next decade.
If she completed a full second term until 2027 she would match Margaret Thatcher, who was in power for 11 years from 1979 to 1990.
She will effectively go head-to-head with the ex-Foreign Secretary at the party rally in Birmingham, which starts on Sunday, September 30, to see who is the biggest draw.
On the Tuesday, BoJo will address 1,000 members at a fringe event.
Mrs May will then deliver her speech on the Wednesday, the final day.
But she still faces a huge challenge over her Chequers Brexit plan.
Brexiteers are keen to give her until November to ditch her blueprint before they consider an attempt to remove her, it emerged last week.
Tory MP Nadine Dorries said she believes Mrs May must leave No 10, saying “if she doesn’t choose to resign, she must be replaced and quickly”.
The Sun on Sunday says
THE Prime Minister should be thinking about March 2019, not a 2022 election.
Between attempting to get a deal that works for Britain and preparing for a No Deal if Brussels bureaucrats remain so inflexible, there is PLENTY of work to do over the coming months.
Thinking about four years’ time is an unnecessary distraction.
For one thing she needs to insist that her civil servants — and some of her Cabinet colleagues — get with the programme. Many of them need to listen to Sir Christopher Meyer, a former Remainer who is now looking forward to a brighter future free of the EU’s iron grip.
It is crucial that everybody involved in these next vital months of negotiations is genuinely ambitious about what Britain can be as a truly independent country.
We have the fifth-largest economy in the world and we’re a “soft-power” titan.
There might be people in Brussels who think we are doomed to failure once we leave — but there shouldn’t be any sitting on our side of the table.
If the Government prepares us properly for a clean break over the coming months, we’ve no reason to be scared for the future. It will strengthen our hand in negotiations, too.
So get on with THAT, Prime Minister.
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There is a co-ordinated campaign for her to “Chuck Chequers”.
David Davis will this week outline a solution to the Irish border issue.
And Priti Patel released a video for the StandUp4Brexit campaign, saying “the Chequers proposals would shackle us to the EU forever”.
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