Furious Tory MPs will bid to oust May if UK fights Euro poll

[Eugene]

Source: The Observer

Furious Tory MPs will bid to oust May if UK fights Euro poll

Prime minister says Brexit could ‘slip through our fingers’ as Tory party fears that taking part in EU election would boost far right

Toby Helm and Michael Savage
Sat 6 Apr 2019 20.30 BST Last modified on Sat 6 Apr 2019 23.35 BST

Theresa May is being warned by her mutinous MPs that they will move to oust her within weeks if the UK is forced to take part in European elections next month and extend its EU membership beyond the end of June.

Tory MPs are increasingly angry at the prospect of voters being asked to go to the polls to elect MEPs three years after the Brexit referendum, in an election they fear will be boycotted by many Conservatives and be a gift to the far right and Nigel Farage’s new Brexit party. Senior Tories said one silver lining of a long extension would be that it would allow them to move quickly to force May out, and hold a leadership election starting as soon as this month.

The warnings came as the prime minister made a last desperate appeal on Saturday night to MPs to back a deal, saying there was an increasing danger Brexit would “slip though our fingers”. May said: “Because parliament has made clear it will stop the UK leaving without a deal, we now have a stark choice: leave the European Union with a deal or do not leave at all.

“The longer this takes, the greater the risk of the UK never leaving at all. It would mean letting the Brexit that the British people voted for slip through our fingers. I will not stand for that. It is essential we deliver what people voted for, and to do that we need to get a deal over the line.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/06/furious-tory-mps-will-bid-to-oust-may-if-uk-fights-euro-poll

[abqtommy]

1. Anybody who pays attention knows that the original popular Brexit vote

was corrupt. Why don't we hear about that every day!?!?

[T_i_B]

2. But do the "furious" Tories have an alternative leader who is any better?

As much as Theresa May has been a disaster, I don't see anyone else who could win a Conservative leadership contest and be an improvement.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. The kind of MPs who are 'furious' would happily have Johnson as PM

or Raab. They don't look for integrity, or competence. They look for ideology, or a British version of "owning the libs".