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The cabinet coup against @theresa_may is over before it even started. Authoritative sources close to @michaelgove tell me he does not believe there should be a caretaker prime minister - so it won't be him. And @DLidington has said on the record he does not want to be PM...
The only outstanding question is whether @theresa_may changes her mind and decides later today - having seen @BorisJohnson @DavidDavisMP @DamianGreen et al, or the nearest the Tories have these days to the "men in grey suits - that it would help her chances of getting her...
Brexit deal over the line to announce she would quit immediately after that deal is ratified by MPs. One of those advising her says he thinks that if she promised to quit that could swing the vote in her direction. Others say any pledge from her to go would not make any...
difference at all. As for her cabinet colleagues, they think it is highly unlikely we'll hear from her today that she's going. "It is simply not in her nature to give a date for her resignation" said one minister. "But truthfully...
I don't know for sure". Or to put it another way, the tradition of May's Cabinet ministers not having a clue what the PM will do on the big things that matter hasn't yet been broken, and probably will endure till that unknown date of her exit.
