End is nigh for May as ministers revolt
THERESA May was yesterday clinging on to office by her fingertips as ministers predicted she will be gone within days.
The British Prime Minister has one last throw of the dice to get her Brexit deal through parliament this week – but that looks doomed to failure.
She looks increasingly isolated as even her most loyal allies concluded she has reached the end of the road.
“Despite all the ideological splits over Brexit, we are now united on one front – we all think Theresa needs to go,” a senior cabinet minister told The Sun newspaper.
And The Sunday Times reported that the beleaguered Mrs May could be replaced by an interim leader to guide the UK through Brexit. Michael Gove is the leading contender to be interim leader before a full leadership vote.
Mrs May’s former policy adviser MP George Freeman said it was “all over for the PM”, tweeting: “She’s done her best. But across the country you can see the anger.”
An estimated one million people opposed to Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union marched through central London on Saturday to demand a new referendum as the Brexit crisis deepens even further.
Mrs May, who voted to stay in the EU before winning the top job in the chaos following the 2016 referendum, had vowed to deliver Brexit but she undermined her premiership with a botched snap election in 2017 which cost her party its parliamentary majority.
The divorce deal she struck with the EU in November has been overwhelmingly rejected twice by British MPs.
The Sunday Times cited 11 unidentified senior ministers and said they had agreed that the PM should stand down, warning she has become a toxic and erratic figure whose judgment has “gone haywire”.
“The end is nigh. She will be gone in 10 days,” an unidentified minister was quoted as saying.
A second unidentified minister said: “Her judgment has started to go haywire. You can’t be a member of the cabinet who just puts your head in the sand.”