Grassroots Tories hatch new ‘ditch May’ plot
Youngster wrote about suicide. Right, Penketh school where she was pupil ALAN MOORE CORONER, AT JESSICA’S INQUEST YESTERDAY FED-UP local Tory chiefs aim to dump Theresa May sooner than planned using little-known powers in the party rule book.
An emergency meeting of the Conservatives’ National Convention, which represents the grassroots, can be called if 65 local chairmen agree, paving the way for a no-confidence vote.
Brexit-backing Tories are furious at the Prime Minister’s
Alan Moore said Jessica Scatterson, who had claimed she was bullied at school, “felt emotionally overwhelmed”.
He added: “The level and the intensity of her activity on social media platforms, particularly in the build-up to her death, cannot have failed to have influenced her thinking, her state of mind and intentions.”
The inquest was told Jessica’s friends called police after she posted a snap of her foot with “RIP” on it.
Officers went to her home in the early hours and her father Christopher Scatterson, 41, found his child in her bedroom surrounded by cuddly toys.
She was pronounced dead in April 2017 two days before her 13th birthday.
A paramedic noticed cuts on her legs and the message on her heel.
Notes that referred to suicide, plus the name of an alleged bully, were found. Police inspector Hannah Friend handling of the UK’s departure from the EU and signatures are already being gathered.
One Tory chairman involved told the Mirror: “If she doesn’t go before the European elections we’ll be hammered. The problem lies not just with her Brexit deal, but her poor leadership.”
Tory officials expect heavy losses in the poll, which would not have taken place if Brexit had happened on schedule. Some She was about to turn 13 predict around half of their 18 MEPs could go, and Downing Street is under pressure to close down its current talks with Labour – deeply unpopular with members – to limit the damage.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused the Government of “dithering” and signalled he would back binding Commons votes to break the impasse.
He laid the blame for the stalled talks on a Tory desire to turn the UK into a deregulated, low-tax economy – and played down fears that Labour, which announces its own MEP candidates today, could suffer at the hands of the new Brexit party.
“Nigel Farage is not the answer to anyone’s problem,” he said.
EU Council president Donald Tusk has hinted at a further extension of Brexit by saying that British MEPs “will be there for several months, maybe longer”.