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💥NEW: Cabinet plots to oust Theresa May next week

💥In the last 48 hours cabinet ministers have discussed jointly telling her she has to resign

💥One cabinet minister warned the PM has “days” left in No10

💥Other ministers threaten mass walkout

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ca…
How Theresa May lost her whips office in "Murder on the Orient Express" showdown

Whip Paul Maynard said “this is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do” as he told her to set a departure date in the Sunday papers

May: “Thank you for your honesty” buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ca…
Warring No10 deeply split on what to do

💣One close adviser says May will go for no-deal (that is being treated with extreme suspicion)

💣Other May allies threatening an election

💣Top No10 aide claims they can delay Brexit again without passing an SI buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ca…
Gavin Barwell’s offer to neutralise plotters:

- Internal Tory party talks to set Brexit policy for next stage
- “Independent” Brexit department free from No10 control
- One source says Michael Gove lined up as new Brexit secretary
- But May stays as PM
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The full extraordinary "Murder on the Orient Express" showdown between Theresa May and her whips office: buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ca…
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NEW: Senior ERG source on Lidington/Gove as caretaker PM

“This stinks of a No10 operation to blackmail us into voting for her deal. They’ve threatened us with an election, a soft Brexit, no Brexit, and now they are threatening us with David Lidington or Michael Gove becoming PM"
Senior ERG source cont.

"It is a fantasy bogeyman. Both Lidington and Gove support the UK remaining in a customs union with the EU. This would be a betrayal of the referendum result."
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"Theresa May could not advise HMQ to make Lidington or Gove the temporary prime minister as neither would not command the confidence of the House. It would create a constitutional crisis and politicise the Queen."
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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…
Other shocking new Islamophobic comments by 25 people self-identifying as Tory members:
- “Tow them back out to sea, sink the boat. Simples”
- “No Muslim will get my vote”
- another shared BNP donations page “to stand against Islamification of our country” buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/to…
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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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