Will Theresa May make it to the summer recess?

Will Theresa May make it to the summer recess? It’s just over a week until Parliament breaks up for the long summer break yet the obstacles the Prime Minister must overcome before then are rapidly increasing in size. After May finally showed her Brexit hand, she has seen a growing Eurosceptic rebellion which shows no signs of letting up anytime soon.

Over the weekend, her former minister Steve Baker accused No 10 of being part of a secret plot to render the Brexit department a ‘Potemkin structure to [distract from] what the Cabinet Office Europe unit was doing for the prime minister’. Meanwhile, Jacob Rees-Mogg offered a memorable soundbite – telling the Sunday Politics that May was a ‘Remainer who has remained a Remainer’. In the face of all this, Downing Street insist that they will not deviate from the Chequers plan as the Brexiteers want them to do. In an interview with Andrew Marr, May doubled down on her Brexit compromise.