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New vote is ‘insult’ Cabinet factions line up against her

THERESA May survived a confidence vote from her MPs – but now her Cabinet ministers are lining up to stab her in the back.

They know she will quit before 2022 and six of them are secretly assembling campaign teams to bid for the leadership. Should Mrs May falter before then, some are so eager they will be quick to make a move even before her body is cold.

That moment could come within weeks. Outside the Cabinet, Mrs May has to fend off attacks from ex-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and two former Brexit Ministers David Davis and Dominic Raab.

Inside the Cabinet the very people who have a duty to support her are sharpening the knives.

CHRIS GRAYLING

Transport Secretary

DISLIKES:

Mrs May’s most inept Cabinet minister. He brought chaos to the railways with shambolic new timetables.

MICHAEL GOVE

Environment Secretary

DISLIKES:

Knows he has to be shrewd. Worth a bet on as next PM.

AMBER RUDD

Work and Pensions Secretary

DISLIKES:

Makings of a future PM but won’t go against Mrs May.

ANDREA LEADSOM

Commons leader

DISLIKES:

Doesn’t rate Grayling, knows Javid and Rudd are rivals.

MATT HANCOCK

Health Secretary

DISLIKES:

Fox dislikes him, wants more NHS cash from Hammond.

SAJID JAVID

Home Secretary

DISLIKES:

Most ruthless, will move if PM’s fatally wounded.

DAVID LIDINGTON

Cabinet Office minister

DISLIKES:

PM’s effective deputy and a staunch pro-European.