May attempts to reassert grip over Tory party amid talk of challenge

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Source: The Guardian

Theresa May will this week attempt to quash speculation about a potential bid to topple her by relaunching her leadership of the Conservative party and pledging to fight on as prime minister.

May will try to reassert her grip over her party before Thursday’s publication of the EU repeal bill, which is likely to face difficulty passing through parliament in the autumn.

However, her attempts to survive as Tory leader are looking increasingly precarious, amid talk among allies of David Davis, the Brexit secretary, of the possibility of replacing her before the party’s autumn conference.

Andrew Mitchell, a former chief whip and a friend of Davis, is reported to have told a dinner of Conservative MPs that the prime minister needed to be replaced.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/09/theresa-may-pressure-to-quit-former-ministers-andrew-mitchell-grant-shapps

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1. As much as she is the worst PM of my lifetime...

....the alternatives in the Tory Party are even worse. And the Tories may well decide that they have little choice but to limp on with Theresa May for the next couple of years.