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Watch: Anna Soubry rows with fellow Tory MP

Theresa May has survived a vote of confidence but the Tory party is not a happy place. Anna Soubry and Robert Buckland have just had a very public row on Sky News. It’s safe to say the two Tory MPs did not see eye-to-eye about what should happen next. Buckland told Soubry that it was ‘time to move on’. But Soubry said the PM was just offering more of the same ’empty rhetoric’:

Soubry: ‘Let me finish please’ Buckland: ‘This is time for compromise not for people taking artificial lines and looking for nirvana’

Soubry later appeared to mutter that her colleague’s words were ‘absolute rubbish’. Oh dear..

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