Prime Minister’s critics gather forces

– Critics of Theresa May’s Brexit plans stepped up their efforts yesterday to force the British prime minister to change tack on leaving the European Union, setting the tone for one of the worsttempered conferences for her Conservative Party.

In the central English city of Birmingham, where her party’s

Birmingham

conference will run until Wednesday, she faces watching potential rivals parade in front of Conservative members.

May’s team hoped the party’s conference would give her a platform to renew her pledge to help those people who are “just about managing”, trying to pull the focus away from Brexit and on to a domestic agenda.

A newspaper interview by Boris Johnson was seen by many in the party to be the start of a campaign to unseat May.

But May did find some support.

Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said she still believed May could still manage to win a deal with the EU. – Reuters