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NEW: No10 plans to bring the deal back for a fourth time next week and is threatening an election if it cannot secure a majority

Cabinet ministers and senior Tory MPs say May must resign and allow a new leader to take over before going to the country

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
Options being looked at by May's aides for next week: MV3, WAB plus Snell, run-off with indicative vote winner

No10 official predicts the alternative option would be the withdrawal agreement with a permanent customs union put to a confirmatory referendum buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
Government whips thought they would only lose by 20 today. They think "two dozen" rebels including Steve Baker, Priti Patel, Peter Bone and Bernard Jenkin are still "in play" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
Whitehall source familiar with the negotiations with the DUP claims the party's MPs are privately split 7-3 in favour of the deal... buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
Cabinet ministers and Tory MPs vow to block any election with May as leader and her deal in the manifesto: buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
💥 Furious row behind the scenes in No10 this week over May's departure announcement

- some key aides wanted her to name date in speech
- others said she should be vague
- line setting date was "taken out"
- IDS ordered No10 to clarify afterwards
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The No10 / IDS row over Theresa May’s resignation speech in full buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
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Alex Wickham
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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."
ERG source says Lidington/Gove would not have their confidence:

"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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Alex Wickham
@alexwickham
💥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…
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Alex Wickham
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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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Heather Stewart
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NEW - Corbyn met PM for an hour today, and had a "frank and comprehensive exchange of views". He rejected the idea of MV3.
**"The Labour leader did not accept the PM's suggestion that the Withdrawal Agreement could be separated from the Political Declaration"**
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Right so I've been away. Can anyway explain to me exactly what the fuck is going on with the Spelman amendment?
Also: Switch on parliamentary debate. IDS talking shite. Baker gets up. Gibbers a bunch of shite. IDS chats shite back. Quickly feel all sense of hope of happiness drain from the body.
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Henry Newman
@HenryNewman
A good Brexit deal is within grasp but MPs risk throwing that away in hope that by leaving with no deal, we might be able to improve our position

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@faisalislam
NEW: Extraordinary Kent County Council No Deal Brexit document detailing “Operation Fennel” next month to hold 10,000 HGVs “on a routine basis”

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- waste services “delayed and disrupted”
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Conservative Kent Council say of Government: “Since August 2018, the planning scenario proposed by Government has increased from three to six months of disruption, although the rationale for this has not been provided by Government”
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