Weak PM May stabbed in the back by Boris

BORIS Johnson yesterday declared war on Theresa May and her soft Brexit strategy.

Johnson, who quit the Cabinet with David Davis, stabbed the British PM in the back saying: “The dream is dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt.”

Mrs May was scrambling to save her leadership last night. Tory MPS warned her job was at risk unless she abandoned her soft Brexit blueprint.

Foreign Secretary Johnson quit just hours after Brexit Secretary David Davis, who is replaced by staunch Brexiteer Dominic Raab.

Jeremy Hunt moves from Health Secretary to replace Mr Johnson.

It is dramatic U-turn after he and Mr Davis backed Mrs May’s Brexit plan at Chequers on Friday.

Three other senior Tories also last night resigned, plunging the Government into chaos.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “The Chequers compromise took two years to reach and two days to unravel. We have a crisis in government. It is clear this government cannot secure a good deal.”

In a bitter attack in his resignation letter, Mr Johnson accused the PM of leading the UK into a “semi-brexit” with the “status of a colony”.

Blasting her EU negotiations, he said: “It is as though we are sending our vanguard into battle with the white flags fluttering above them.”