MAY FACES FIRE IN WESTMINSTER OVER BREXIT
Theresa May has warned Tory rivals not to unseat her ahead
of a "critical" seven days for her Brexit negotiations.
Speaking
on Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday, the Prime Minister said the efforts of furious
Brexiteers to oust her would only increase the risk of delaying the EU divorce
deal.
Ms May also announced
she would be heading to Brussels this week for fresh talks with key figures
such as Jean Claude-Juncker, the European Commission president.
The Conservative
Party's Brexit civil war continued on Sunday, though 1922 Committee
chair Sir Graham Brady said he hadn't received the 48 no confidence
letters needed to trigger a leadership ballot.
Former first secretary of state Damian Green - a
close friend of Ms May - has said a leadership change would be
"absurd".
Mr Green, speaking to BBC Sunday Politics South
East, urged Tory MPs not to submit letters of no confidence to Sir Graham
Brady.
He said: "If you step back, we are at the
absolute crunch point of the most important negotiations this country has had
for decades.
"To say
that what the country now needs is a leadership election and a change of
leadership, is absurd. From the country's point of view, I think that's exactly
the wrong way to go."
Sir Graham also told BBC Radio 5 Live that
not even his wife knows how many letters he has received from other
Conservative MPs.
He told Pienaar's Politics: "Victoria does
not know, nor do the two vice-chairmen of the 1922 Committee, or the other
officers."
The senior backbencher also revealed he was not happy with Mrs May's withdrawal agreement.
Asked about the deal's lack of a unilateral exit route from the backstop, Sir Graham said: "I'm not happy about it.
"We've got the draft withdrawal agreement, there might be some tweaks to that and I hope there will be."
Sir Graham Brady has said it would
be "very likely" that Theresa May would win a no confidence vote
if one was triggered.
Speaking on the North West edition of the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, he said: "It would be a simple majority, it would be very likely that the Prime Minister would win such a vote and if she did, then there would be a 12-month period where this could not happen again - which would be a huge relief for me because people would have to stop asking me questions about numbers of letters for at least 12 months."
He said both he and the Prime Minister could technically put in letters calling for a confidence vote but that he would be "very surprised" to receive a letter from himself.
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mentioned and even postulated before now are now every days news item on the
saga since The Prime Minister faced the heat recently from surprisingly his own
party members.
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Another round-up piece here... "Dominic
Raab pledges support to Theresa May despite attacking 'fatally flawed' EU
divorce plan"
Jeremy Corbyn says second referendum 'an option
for the future' as he claims he would get a better deal than PM. Our round-up:
That's Dominic Raab finished on Marr.
He
refused to completely rule out a leadership bid, but said he supported Theresa
May and wouldn't be submitting a no confidence letter to the 1922
Committee.
Mr Raab's
message to Brexiteers wanting to topple Ms May: "It's a total distraction
from what we need to do, we need to get Brexit over the line. Support the PM,
but we also need to change course on Brexit."
Mr Raab
on his Calais/Dover crossing gaffe: "I hadn't quite appreciated the
challenges but also solutions... you can have your laugh, Andrew."
Mr Raab: "The deal won't get through
Parliament.
"The
risk of no-deal would go up. But I still think we can get a good deal."
Mr Raab: "I think we are being bullied by
the EU. We cannot accept these dictated terms."
On standing for Tory leadership: "I would
never send a letter to the 1922 Committee.
"I'm not getting sucked into that. In a
vote of no confidence, I would support her."
He
doesn't rule it out completely, but bemoans the Brexiteer bid to topple Ms
May's leadership.
Mr Raab: "I still support the Prime
Minister. But we need to change course on the Brexit deal.
"I
want her to succeed but if we don't change course, we will regret it for the
foreseeable future."
Dominic
Raab is now on Marr: "Two or three of the changes rendered this deal
fatally flawed. In good conscience, I didn't feel able to sign up to
this."
Here's
Nicola Sturgeon on rejecting the Brexit deal.
Nicola
Sturgeon is now on Marr. The Scottish first minister says SNP MPs will vote
against Theresa May's Brexit deal. She labels it "chaos".
Theresa May says changing leadership 'risks
delaying Brexit' as she defends her divorce deal on Sky News. Our round-up:
Dominic Raab is the big interview on the Andrew
Marr Show this morning.
Expect him to speak out against the Prime
Minister once more....
Here's the summary of comments made this
morning.
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