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In one-on-one phone calls with Theresa May today, Tory rebels told the PM in direct terms that the price for them voting for the deal is her publicly committing to stand down so a new leader can take charge of the next Brexit negotiations

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🚨 In a phone call with a former cabinet minister yesterday, May reacted with “surprise” and “faux astonishment” at the suggestion she should resign buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
- MPs also told No10 aides and Julian Smith this weekend that May must sign a resignation pact
- It was discussed at a meeting between May and MPs on Friday
- A senior No10 aide told one MP: “She knows this”
- MPs have urged Graham Brady to tell her to go
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Switcher MPs who previously opposed the deal but backed it last week say the only way to get the rest to fold is for May to quit. Here are @ZacGoldsmith and @bbradleymp buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
@ZacGoldsmith @bbradleymp Former cabinet minister on the plan for a May resignation pact: "There are 40 of us who have said this. They will not vote for the deal if she stays. She would need to be gone by April and say that at the despatch box" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
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NEW: The Conservative Party has been forced to make yet more suspensions after another 25 self-identifying Tory members were found to have posted shocking anti-Muslim comments on Facebook

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One man who posted a photo of himself campaigning for the Tory party wrote on Facebook about killing Muslims: “I was going through a few magazines the other day down at the local Mosque. I was really enjoying myself. Then the rifle jammed.” buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/to…
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The Tories accepted £146,750 of donations in November and December from Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of one of Putin’s former ministers, eight months after the Skripal poisonings. She donated another £100,000 to the party in March.
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NEW: 30 Labour MPs held talks about quitting the party in what was originally planned as a far more damaging assault on Jeremy Corbyn, but only 7 went ahead with the plan today amid chaotic disagreements over strategy, organisation and personalities

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Anti-Corbyn plotters have disagreed on whether:

- Chuka and Leslie should lead the new party
- they should set up a new party at all
- they should call/fight by-elections
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🚨 At least 4 Tory MPs placed on defection watch:

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