Victims of toxic party

THERESA May is not the first Tory leader to be hounded by the Tory Right.

And, if her shambles of a party survives Brexit, nor will she be the last.

What makes this spectacle so appalling is the poison which runs through the party is now infecting the rest of the country.

The referendum was called by David Cameron to end internal divisions. Far from healing wounds it has deepened them.

The party is still tearing itself apart and it is now tearing the country apart in the process.

The arrogance of the small group of hardline Tory Brexiteers is staggering. They campaigned for a Brexit on promises which they knew were undeliverable and now evade all responsibility for the carnage they have created.

One by one those who threw our country into turmoil, leaving us an international laughing stock, have fled the scene.

Cameron has gone. Boris Johnson has gone. David Davis has gone, Dominic Raab has gone.

This was their project but the common theme to all the recent Cabinet resignations is that not one of them has offered an alternative plan for delivering Brexit.

Their self-indulgence is only eclipsed by Jacob Rees-Mogg and his supporters, who want to topple their PM at a time when the country is engaged in negotiations on which our jobs, wellbeing and livelihoods depend.

The Conservatives are proving incapable of governing. They have been handed the responsibility of office yet they are acting like playground bullies and spoiled school kids.

Mrs May has only herself to blame. If she had read her history should would have known you can never appease the Tory Right. Instead of confronting them, she led them to believe she would land a Brexit that was never deliverable.

The result is a government in disarray and a Prime Minister in office but not in power.