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Huge Tory revolt under way to stop @theresa_may asking EU for Brexit delay of nine months or more. She has been requested to address the 1922 committee of Conservative MPs at 5pm tomorrow, where she will be told in no uncertain terms that delay must not be longer than...
end June. Meanwhile many MPs have told me that Brexiter members of Cabinet, led by @andrealeadsom and @PennyMordaunt, have also sought meeting with PM in morning to express same concern. Neither minister responding to my enquiry. Also several MPs have said there is growing...
movement for PM to announce her resignation date imminently. “The plates are shifting” said one. Tomorrow will be (ANOTHER) big day, for the PM and the nation.
I have learned this morning that the foreign secretary @Jeremy_Hunt is one of the recalcitrant Cabinet ministers who has requested meeting with PM this morning to urge her to rule our long Brexit delay
PS it sounds as though the PM may already have capitulated to pressure from Brexiter ministers and MPs, and will no longer float option with EU of longer Brexit delay. But if she does that, the no-deal cliff edge simply moves from end March to May/June
