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The 1922 executive committee thinks it has finally laid a surefire trap for the PM, @theresa_may - by securing a promise from her to hold the second reading of the core Brexit legislation, the Withdrawal Agreement and Implementation Bill, before EU elections in two weeks...
The point is that either the bill passes, and she resigns as soon it becomes law (as she has promised to do), or it flops, which is what most Tories expect, and it becomes unambiguously clear that she can never deliver Brexit - in which case they will force her out in...
June/July. Tory MPs assume she knows this. But they will drive the point home when the executive committee meets her next week (at her suggestion). It would be tempting to say that her fate is in the hands of @jeremycorbyn, her putative nemesis - in that if Labour agrees...
a Brexit pact with her, maybe that would see her Withdrawal Agreement Bill pass into law. But a deal acceptable to Corbyn would alienate too many Tory MPs for the associated legislation to be approved. Which is why a very senior Tory told me she would be history before the...
recess at the end of July. “It needs 3 weeks for the parliamentary process and then five to six weeks [for the members to decide] in the country”. Which means the coup would happen in the first week of June.
PS all this and more is being chewed over now on #Peston on ITV
PS all this and more is being chewed over now on #Peston on ITV
