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TEHRAN, May 07 - A group of lawmakers from Britain’s ruling Conservative party have reportedly pledged to oust Prime Minister Theresa May in case she proceeds with plans to sign a Brexit deal with Labour, the main opposition party.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Senior Tory sources told the Telegraph on Monday that May will be “gone very quickly” if she accepts Labour’s demands for keeping a customs union with the European Union after leaving the bloc.
Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs, was set to meet May on Tuesday to make her either set a timetable to step down or having one set for her by the party.
Separately, Andrew Sharpe, chairman of the grassroots National Conservative Convention, was slated to announce an Extraordinary General Meeting on June 15, during which the convention’s 800 members will hold a confidence vote in May.
The result of the unprecedented vote will not be binding but will further press May to quit if she loses the vote.
Tory backbench MPs, however, want to topple May much sooner than that.
“People are waiting to see what this deal is, if it happens. That will be the decision point for a lot of MPs when it comes to deciding the Prime Minister’s future,” a senior minister told the Telegraph.
“It’s going to be very difficult to support any deal Labour would support. It all comes down to the same old problem, that they want a full and permanent customs union, and we made a manifesto pledge to leave the customs union.
The report came amid May’s intensified efforts to pursue Labour to agree to a deal that guarantees a smooth withdrawal from the EU. The embattled has failed on three occasions to gain the approval of the parliament for the Brexit agreement she signed with the EU in November.
Reports earlier on Sunday said May had pressed Labour to agree to a deal, especially after results of the Friday elections for local councils showed that the two mainstream parties had suffered significant losses, mainly due to their inability to deliver on Brexit.
The unnamed cabinet minister told the Telegraph that the Tories had a lot more to lose compared to Labour.
“It’s a trust problem for us. Despite what everyone has said about the local election results being bad for Labour, I’m not convinced that Brexit is as much of an issue for Labour with their voters as it is for us.”
Source: Presstv
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