Forget Brexit (I dare you!). The game now, in the Tory Party, is positioning for the looming leadership election. Because I can find no one in the Cabinet or on the backbenches who still believes Theresa May will be PM for longer than a few weeks, such is their fury and agony that we’re 18 days from Brexit and we still don’t know the how, the when, or even the whether we’ll leave (OK, so it was impossible to forget Brexit – sorry!).
Even those who think the petard that’s hoisting her was made in Brussels say she had a choice about attaching herself to it.
Here is the voice of a senior cabinet member who till now has never uttered a squeak of disloyalty (or at least not to me): ‘she’s got to go, and soon; the idea that, if we do manage to get out, she’ll be in charge of the 80 per cent of the negotiations left to do with the EU [on our future trade and security relationship] is utterly unthinkable.
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