Morris joins list of Tories to demand no confidence vote

NEWTON Abbot MP Anne Marie Morris is among the MPs to have submitted a letter calling for a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May.

She revealed the move last Thursday, on the day the Prime Minister went before the House of Commons to explain the latest Brexit deal.

She told the BBC: “I feel that with Theresa, she is the wrong leader at this time, and I’ve put in my letter asking for a vote of no confidence.

“I am not alone and I do it with a heavy heart but now it’s the country that matters more than absolutely anything else.”

She also said she believed the threshold of 48 Tory MPs required to trigger a no confidence motion in the Prime Minister will be reached this week.

She told Newsnight: “There is quite a lot of disquiet in the House now.”

South Devon’s other MPs also joined the debate, speaking in the Commons.

Totnes MP Sarah Wollaston, who has called for a second referendum on leaving the EU, said: “It will be blindingly obvious to the entire country that the Prime Minister’s deal can- not pass this House.

“People will find it unforgivable that we are running out of road and that in 134 days we will be crashing out of the European Union with no deal and no transition, with catastrophic consequences for all the communities that we represent in this House. May I urge her to think again about whether at this stage we should go back to the people and present them with the options, rather than just stumbling on regardless into something that will have such profound implications for all of our lives?”

Mrs May replied: “The nature of Brexit and our future relationship with the European Union will be a matter that will come before this House in the vote that the House will take.

“Members of the House will have various issues to consider when they take that vote.

“I firmly believe that, having given the choice as to whether we should leave the EU to the British people, it is right and proper, and indeed our duty as a Parliament and a Government, to deliver on that vote.”

Torbay MP Kevin Foster raised concerns about the future of trade after Brexit. He asked Mrs May: “I believe that those in Torbay who voted leave did so because they wanted to see a global trading Britain.

“That will be epitomised by

How the new college building may look with work under way on demolishing the old buildings (below) us joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, which has been signed by some of our oldest allies.

“Can she reassure me that the deal she is proposing will facilitate British membership of that agreement?”

Mrs May replied: “I can give that reassurance.

“When we were looking at this proposal, we specifically looked at whether it would be possible to join the CPTPP.

“I can assure him not only that it would be possible for us to join it, but that members of the CPTPP such as Japan and Australia are keen for us to do so.”