Speaking on the Today programme this morning, Simon Clarke – the Tory Brexiteer who has filed a letter of ‘no confidence’ in the Prime Minister – declared that ‘this is the day we stand at the bar of history’. Clarke and his fellow Brexiteer plotters said that the full 48 letters required to trigger a confidence vote were imminent: ‘this day must be the point at which … action is taken’.
Alas it seems today is not the day after all – the ERG plotters have failed to meet the bar. As Isabel reports on Coffee House, Tory Brexiteers are now briefing out that they are giving May time to consider – rather than firing off the final few letters. A kind reprieve from the ERG – or are they just saving face after several weeks of dodgy arithmetic?
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