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The 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs have inflicted yet another humiliation on @theresa_may. Their committee led by Graham Brady have asked her to set out a “schedule and timetable” for her departure in all circumstances, ie whether or not her Brexit deal is...
approved by MPs. And Brady reminded Tory MPs of their right to send him letters calling for her to go. This is not the same as insisting she name a precise date for her resignation. But it is a wafer’s wafer away from that. I asked Brady if there was any...
precedent for Tory MPs putting pressure like this on a serving PM to resign and he could not think of one.
I asked Graham Brady if he thought it possible @theresa_may could tell her MPs she intends to serve till December, in reply to the request he has sent via the chief whip for her to set out a departure schedule. That would be “surprising” he said, in his understated way
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