May: Got any bright ideas?

Floundering PM asks opposition parties for help

TROUBLED Theresa May is offering to look at ideas from other parties in a bid to get her reforms through Parliament.

The weakened Prime Minister will use a speech tomorrow to invite Labour and the Lib Dems to come forward with “views and ideas”.

In a marked new tone, she will accept her failure to win a majority means “the reality I now face as Prime Minister is rather different.”

Saying she wants to find a better way forward, she will add: “It will be even more important to make the case for our policies and values.

“So I say to other parties, come forward with your views and ideas about how we can tackle these challenges as a country. We may not agree on everything, but through discussion ideas can be clarified and improved.” Mrs May, scorned for her negative campaigning, will urge rivals to “contribute, not just criticise”.

Brexit Secretary David Davis has already held out an olive branch to Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer, who will join the privy council so he can be briefed on EU talks. Mrs May marks her first year as PM on Thursday – with growing speculation about how long she can survive.

Today, MPS from all major parties will launch a group to block a hard Brexit. Co-chaired by Tory Anna Soubry and Labour’s Chuka Umunna, it includes Lib Dem Jo Swinson and Stephen Gethins of the SNP.

Mr Umunna said: “We won’t accept MPS being treated as spectators in the Brexit process.”

Labour and the Lib Dems also hope to block parts of the EU Repeal Bill, which lets ministers rewrite hundreds of laws without asking MPS.

Lib Dem MP Tom Brake said: “This government cannot be trusted with more power than Henry VIII had. I wouldn’t trust them to run a bath.”

IF Theresa May really wanted what’s best for Britain, she’d resign immediately and call another general election.

She won’t, of course, striving instead to cling on grimly to her pantomime premiership while about the only issue uniting the Conservative Party is desperation to avoid a return to the polls and likely defeat.

Weakness combined with cluelessness is a toxic cocktail when Brexit poses a potentially disastrous threat to our economy.

Talk of plots ahead of this week’s publication of the crucial Brexit Bill inevitably means her mind is on personal survival rather than Britain’s future prosperity.

May is only in Downing Street on borrowed time. We need a PM whose mind is on the job ahead for our country, not her own job in No10. So the longer May and the Tories stagger around, the worse it will be for us.

Changing Tory Prime Ministers isn’t the answer. We need a change of Government.

APPEAL Mrs May