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Brexit hots up
THERESA May gave her critics the finger last night as she refused to move on Brexit.
The Prime Minister was hit with threats of a no-confidence vote, as head Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg called for her to be replaced “within weeks”.
But she vowed to fight off any challenge. Speaking at a last-minute press conference, she said: “I believe with every fibre of my being that the course I have set out is the right one for our country and all our people.
“This deal delivers what people voted for and it is in the national interest.
“And we can only secure it if we unite behind the agreement reached in Cabinet yesterday.”
Chaos
The PM was last night said to have appealed to Michael Gove to take on the role of Brexit Secretary and save her premiership.
This comes after a day of chaos for Mrs May, starting with Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab quitting before 9am.
He claimed her proposals would be “damaging for the economy and devastating for public trust in our democracy”.
Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey also quit, saying the plans did not “honour the result of the referendum”.
And high-profile Tories revealed they had written to the 1922 committee demanding a vote of no-confidence.
Influential Mr Rees-Mogg was one of those calling for the PM to go. He said: “I think there are many people in the Conservative Party, not just in Parliament, but in the country at large, who feel that her service now should come to an end.
“She is a very dutiful person, she has served the country to the best of her ability but she has let us down in this deal.
“She didn’t do what she said she would.”
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