Tory MPs should vote for Theresa May in tonight’s confidence vote. Keeping her in place will be painful, difficult and lead to any number of awful problems. But it is far, far better than the horrors that will follow if they remove her.
Even if you can, like Owen Paterson, blithely gloss over the fact that Britain would not have a permanent head of government for a month at a time of national crisis, you can’t deny the fact that changing the leader won’t change the parliamentary numbers.
Nor — despite the fantasies of the Tory unicorn-herders — will it change the EU position. So the only option for a new leader is to change the British negotiating position, abandon the backstop that is a prerequisite of any deal with the EU and put the UK on course for a no-deal exit.
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