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Foreign Secretary
DISLIKES: No one. Tends to see the best in everyone. Intensely loyal, will not enter race until May’s done for. Defence Secretary
DISLIKES: Andrea Leadsom, Matt Hancock, Sajid Javid Loyal to May but this ex-chief whip will be stealthy. International Trade Secretary
DISLIKES: Sajid Javid, Matt Hancock, Andrea Leadsom No admirer of how any of the three do their jobs. Prime Minister
DISLIKES: Sajid Javid, Penny Mordaunt, Chris Grayling Sajid Javid was already canvassing support for a leadership bid before Wednesday’s confidence vote. He irritates Mrs May by constantly trying to interrupt her in Cabinet meetings. She thinks Penny Mordaunt is presumptuous to even think she could be PM. And Chris Grayling is only in Cabinet to make up the Brexit quota – everything at Transport is going off the rails. International Development Secretary
DISLIKES: Amber Rudd, Jeremy Hunt, Philip Hammond. Nearly everyone knows she’s not up to being PM. FURIOUS Theresa May yesterday accused Tony Blair of wrecking her last chance to save her Brexit deal – “insulting” the office he once held.
She said the ex-PM’s backing for a second referendum was deliberately sabotaging her bid to make EU leaders compromise on the Irish backstop.
Her explosive statement said: “There are too many people who want to subvert the process for their own political interests rather than act in the national interest.
“For Tony Blair to go to Brussels and seek to undermine our negotiations by advocating a second referendum is an insult to the office he once held and the people he once served.
“We cannot, as he would, abdicate responsibility for this decision.”
Mr Blair has sounded out many EU leaders and on Friday said the “most divisive” thing the PM could do was to keep forcing through a deal that has no support in the country. A No10 source hit back, saying: “The PM understands the duties and responsibilities which come with high political office.” Tomorrow Jeremy Corbyn could table a no