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Backbench Tory MPs hopeful of rule change to oust Theresa May
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Members of the Conservative backbench group of MPs will meet again on Wednesday to decide whether to change the party’s rules to permit another challenge to her leadership within weeks, after the last vote narrowly went in her favour by nine to seven.
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Charles Walker, vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee, criticised Conservative rebels who have refused to back the prime minister’s deal and accused them of unfairly “laying the blame all on her shoulders”.
“We are playing fast and loose as a party at the moment,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World at One. “There are colleagues who have suggested the prime minister should go, the prime minister has said that she wants to leave early in her premiership, but she doesn’t want to leave this god almighty mess ... We all need to take personal responsibility for the fact that we are still in the EU and that we are in government. This idea that a new prime minister [will] all be sweetness and light is for the birds.”
He suggested some of the 34 Conservative MPs who refused to vote for a deal might be better off defecting to another party.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/07/backbench-tory-mps-hopeful-of-rule-change-to-oust-theresa-may
Members of the Conservative backbench group of MPs will meet again on Wednesday to decide whether to change the party’s rules to permit another challenge to her leadership within weeks, after the last vote narrowly went in her favour by nine to seven.
...
Charles Walker, vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee, criticised Conservative rebels who have refused to back the prime minister’s deal and accused them of unfairly “laying the blame all on her shoulders”.
“We are playing fast and loose as a party at the moment,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World at One. “There are colleagues who have suggested the prime minister should go, the prime minister has said that she wants to leave early in her premiership, but she doesn’t want to leave this god almighty mess ... We all need to take personal responsibility for the fact that we are still in the EU and that we are in government. This idea that a new prime minister [will] all be sweetness and light is for the birds.”
He suggested some of the 34 Conservative MPs who refused to vote for a deal might be better off defecting to another party.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/07/backbench-tory-mps-hopeful-of-rule-change-to-oust-theresa-may
Since rearranging the deckchairs hasn't produced results and their most recent engagement was a wipe-out, they're now considering making the captain walk the plank and encouraging mutinous crew members to bail out into a lifeboat with the next battle heaving into view on the horizon.
Here's Charles Walker on Sky News in a greyly apocalyptic mood:
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Haggis_UK #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK
Charles Walker(VChair 1922 Committee) - On the balance of probability we may end up remaining.#PeoplesVote #FinalSay #alloutpolitics
Charles Walker(VChair 1922 Committee) - On the balance of probability we may end up remaining.#PeoplesVote #FinalSay #alloutpolitics
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