Two Tory MPs boasted last week that they were prepared to trigger a challenge to Theresa May’s leadership amid growing fury that the prime minister plans to railroad her party into backing a customs deal with Brussels. Sources in the European Research Group of hardline Brexiteers say the MPs showed drafts of the “salty rhetoric” in letters calling for a vote of no confidence. The Brexit war cabinet rejected May’s plans for a new customs partnership with Brussels last Wednesday, with Boris Johnson yelling, “It’s 6-5!” when the casting vote came in. But May plans to present a “tweaked and rebadged” version of the plan to her war cabinet on Thursday, urging them to support it. If they refuse, she is prepared to appeal over
Two unnamed the European Research Group MPs have warned they could seek to bring down the prime minister, Theresa May, over her proposal for a customs partnership with the European Union. Sources within Conservative, which is made up of pro-Brexit Tory MPs, said the MPs have been drafting letters containing "salty rhetoric" and calling for a vote of no confidence in the prime minister. May's Brexit war cabinet recently rejected her proposal, which she plans to amend before presenting it again, warning she could take it to the full cabinet if it is dismissed once more.