Theresa May conveyed no sense at Cabinet as to whether her ministers will be allowed to vote with their consciences tomorrow on Sir Oliver Letwin’s indicative votes, to find a solution to the Brexit mess.
She has been warned by MP Anne Milton that there could be 20 resignations from junior ranks of government to add to the three on Monday, if she does not allow a free vote.
Ministerial sources tell me that the four in the cabinet, justice minister David Gauke, Amber Rudd, Greg Clark and Scottish minister David Mundell, who are seen as the leaders of the anti-no-deal rebels, won’t resign.
There is a view among the ministers prepared to fight to the political death to prevent a no-deal Brexit, that the quartet known as the Gaukward Squad are better off for now staying in the Cabinet, because if they quit, the balance of the Cabinet would shift definitively towards supporters of a no-deal Brexit.
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