The former education secretary claims a “very senior Cabinet minister” has told her how appalled ‘she’ is at the infighting.
May’s damaged authority is having a beneficial side-effect – namely, freeing Tory MPs to think aloud about the Party’s future.
We pick out five items from it which may be of special interest to our readers and others who will attend.
“Those who say that there wouldn’t be a problem aren’t listening to exporters and employers.”
She makes this case in her first publication, but is far too anxious never to cause anyone in the educational establishment any offence.
Clarke, Grieve, Morgan, Soubry, Neill, Stephen Hammond, Wollaston, Sandbach and Lefroy back major changes to the Bill (as do some Brexiteers)
What counts most is opposition to a Bill or to parts of it. And most Tory criticisms of the EU Withdrawal Bill aren’t coming from the Brexiteers.
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They already elect their chairmen and there will be fewer trips abroad – at least when the Commons is sitting. That means more scrutiny of what Ministers are up to.
She is now dependent on her critics if the new goverment is to work. This is a time for humility, reconciliation – and all hands on deck.
And all this, remember, is on the assumption that she somehow gains a working majority, or is Prime Minister in a hung Parliament.
“It is untenable for us to play any further role in an organisation, such as Open Britain, which is advocating campaigning against Conservative MPs or candidates.”