Theresa May faces huge pressure to quit next week so new PM can lead Brexit talks
Outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure to speed up her exit ahead of her fourth attempt to get her Brexit deal through Parliament
THERESA May will face huge pressure to quit this week as she gives her Brexit deal its fourth and final fling.
Win or lose, top Tories will tell the PM it’s time to go.
Brexiteers want a swift exit so a new leader can be in place by summer for the next round of EU talks.
The end could come within days as senior MPs demand a departure by the EU’s next Brexit deadline of May 22 at the latest.
MPs will seize control of the Brexit process this week after the deal was defeated for the third time.
Tomorrow they will hold a “pick ’n’ mix” vote to find a solution, expected to be staying in the customs union.
Mrs May will have one last roll of the dice on Tuesday when she gives MPs the choice — my deal or a watered-down Brexit.
A Downing Street source said: “It will be last chance saloon time. The rebels holding out for no deal will have some serious thinking to do.
“If they don’t vote for the Government’s plan, then Parliament’s plan will supersede it.
“That will mean Brexit is delayed for a further two years and Britain staying in a customs union.”
45 ignore out voters
DOZENS of MPs backed stopping Brexit — even though they represent Leave constituencies.
Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan and ex-Defence Minister Guto Bebb were among 45 who defied their voters to back an SNP motion.
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Failure to leave the EU swiftly could trigger a general election or even the unlikely event of Britain crashing out without a deal, if the EU refuse a further Brexit delay.
About 12 Tories are jockeying for position and will throw their hats into the ring when Mrs May resigns.
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Remainer MPs are quietly pushing for the PM to stay on until the Tory conference in September.
But a wannabe leader said: “They want to go long because they’ve more chance of winning in the autumn.”
Her Maj ‘in power veto’
THE Queen could be drawn into the Brexit debacle to stop backbench MPs seizing power from the Government, it has been claimed.
Last night two constitutional experts warned she could refuse to give royal assent to any Bill forced on Theresa May’s Cabinet.
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BLINKERED Brexit hardliners are in danger of losing everything they have fought for.
The very real prospect of a humiliating fourth defeat for Theresa May’s deal in the Commons this week will have devastating consequences.
The likely outcome is that the Prime Minister will have to crawl back to Brussels to beg for an extension that could last years — spurring on the Brexit blockers.
But the likes of Priti Patel, Owen Paterson, Sir Bernard Jenkin and Suella Braverman seem hell-bent on scuppering her deal whatever the risks.
Fellow heavyweight Brexiteers such as Boris Johnson, Iain Duncan Smith and Dominic Raab have weighed up the options and concluded that a flawed Brexit is better than no Brexit.
But this hardcore of headbangers is prepared to play Russian roulette with the future of the country rather than ditch their precious ideological purity.
They and their equally unbending colleagues in the European Research Group must now swing behind Mrs May and push her deal over the line.
This week we have already seen a grassroots uprising among local Tory party members who want to axe their rebellious MPs.
Dominic Grieve could be the first high-profile casualty.
This is perilous territory for the Conservatives. How long before it costs them a precious seat?
The crazed dogma of their hardcore minority will turn the voter backlash from a trickle into a raging torrent.
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