“I think the Conservative party as a whole is reluctant to get rid of Theresa May now because it would mean a leadership election, it would mean stalling on Brexit talks”, Menon said.
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Prior to June 8, the leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon was pushing hard for a second referendum, after losing the 2014 independence vote.
The UK election of 2017 ended in a hung parliament after the ruling-Conservative Party of Prime Minister Theresa May failed to retain its majority, however, British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would lead a minority government.
“What I’m doing now is actually getting on with the immediate job”.
Nevertheless, after this poor showing, Conservatives are unlikely to want May to be their figurehead during the next election, so it seems fairly likely she’ll be pushed out at some point – whether that means sooner or later is yet to be seen.
“The taoiseach (Kenny) indicated his concern that nothing should happen to put the Good Friday Agreement at risk and the challenge that this agreement will bring”, an Irish government spokesman said.
Michael Fallon, the Defense Secretary who, for now, remains loyal, served notice Sunday that the PM had to start being more consensual when he said: “We’re going to see more collective government. I believe that’s important”. Labour, the main opposition party, won 262.
May earlier on Saturday lost her two closest aides as she struggled to reassert her leadership after a crushing election setback.
In a pooled broadcast interview, Mrs May hinted she could be prepared to sacrifice them to appease her critics once she has completed her ministerial appointments.
“She’s staying, for now”, one Conservative Party source told Reuters.
It’s all a distraction at a pressured time for the Prime Minister.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has stuck by her top ministers, forgoing what has become a traditional post-election reshuffle in a sign of her diminished authority days before Brexit talks are due to start. But the ballot-box humiliation has seriously – and possibly mortally – wounded her leadership just as Britain is about to begin complex exit talks with the European Union.
Conservative legislator Anna Soubry said she should “consider her position”, while another, Heidi Allen, said she may not last six months.
Former chancellor George Osborne predicted that Mrs May could be forced out of No 10 within a matter of days, saying she was “dead woman walking”. “In my view it may well just be a period of transition”, she told LBC radio. From whom? From her party?
But media reports suggest they had demanded the departure of May’s joint chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, as the price for allowing the 60-year-old vicar’s daughter to stay in office.
Corbyn said Labour would try to amend the Queen’s Speech to include its own commitments to end austerity and boost public spending.
Meanwhile what do we know about her new best pals the Democratic Unionist Party?
The DUP has agreed to the principles of a proposal to back the Tories on a “confidence and supply basis”, Downing Street says.
“The DUP need a deal because they are absolutely committed not to have a hard border with the Republic of Ireland”, he told BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show. The DUP has fought to maintain tight restrictions on abortion and opposes gay marriage.
London’s neutrality is key to the delicate balance of power in Northern Ireland, which was once plagued by violence over Britain’s control of the province.
But Anna Soubry, a Conservative member of parliament who campaigned ahead of last year’s referendum for Britain to stay in the European Union, disagreed. “I and other colleagues have made that clear to her”.
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Damian Green, a lawmaker in the pro-EU wing of the party, was promoted to first secretary of state – effectively deputy prime minister.
