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The Conservative Party threatened the rebels with a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister and a general election to pass a vital bill, said a Conservative MP, calling for a government National All-Party Union "Anna Soubry said that the flogging operation during the Brexit votes in the Commons Tuesday night was a" dread show "and that Theresa May had lost control of the party
. threaten the general election and confidence votes to the Prime Minister, and as I told the deputy chief of the whip, I will do so because I will be the first to trust the Prime Minister. said Today's program of BBC Radio 4.
"The problem is, I do not think it's responsible anymore.I do not doubt that Jacob Rees-Mogg runs our country."
Soubry said there should be a multi-stakeholder collaboration on a new Brexit agreement, but she said that Labor had the "old Trotskyists in charge". "Personally, I would abandon the Labor outpost and go beyond and I would understand Plaid Cymru, the SNP and other sensible and pragmatic people who believe in the priority of interests. of the country, "she said.
The conservative civil war and a potential leadership challenge of the eurosceptic wing of the party when MPs defeated a proposed amendment to the draft law on trade by six votes.
MPs voted 307 to 301 to overthrow the amendment, under which Britain would have been forced to join a customs union with the EU if no agreement was reached on frictionless trade at 21 January 2019.
Twelve remaining conservatives, including Soubry, Stephen Hammond and Nicky Morgan, supported the proposal granted a guarantee in the event of lack of commercial agreement with the company. EU at the Brexit approach on 29 March. The Conservatives argued that their proposal was "exactly in line" with the government's Brexit white paper.
On Tuesday, it was said that more Conservative MPs would have rebelled if the government whips had not threatened to get third reading of the bill. a vote of no confidence in May themselves if the vote was lost, raising the specter of a general election.
Five Brexit-friendly parliamentarians, one of whom was suspended, voted with the government against the backstop customs plan Kate Hoey, John Mann, Frank Field, Graham Stringer and Kelvin Hopkins
Earlier, May suffered an unexpected defeat when MPs supported calls for the UK to remain under EU drug regulation
said Wednesday in an editorial that Labor would never support Brexit's May plan , written by Checkers' firm for last week's white paper.
"If you think the Labor Party will support your fatally flawed check," Then you have another thing to come, "he wrote." No, no, no. We can not simply accept an unworkable compromise that has been thrown together to try to keep the Conservative Party together.
Soubry said that the pro-EU conservatives had serious reservations about Checkers' plan but were ready to support him until May. He supported several amendments tabled by Jacob Rees-Mogg, who chairs the European research group of Eurosceptic Conservative MPs "We had a grotesque show on Monday when the government was whipping its own members. Parliament to support amendments deliberately designed to destroy this very pragmatic white paper, "said Soubry." So now he is in tatters and they know it. "
Top conservative Nicholas Soames has already raised the idea of A national unity government, telling Channel 4 News: "I must say that if I had my way, we would have a national government to deal with that. This is the most serious problem that this country has been facing since the war.
May will face another day of pressure in the House of Commons on Wednesday, including questions from the Prime Minister and an appearance before the Senior Officials Liaison Committee. In the evening she will meet backbenchers at a meeting of the 1922 Committee. It is expected that Boris Johnson, the former Foreign Minister, will pronounce a speech of resignation in the Commons.
Cabinet Minister David Lidington said Wednesday that leaving the Customs Union was a key element of the May strategy. allowed to pass.
"It's in the conservative manifesto that we should not join a customs union," he told Today. "We need to focus on the positive detailed plan presented by the British government in the white paper.What we want to do now is sit down with our counterparts and work on these proposals."
M Lidington said the government would provide more details on its preparations for a non-trading scenario in the coming weeks. "But our energies are going in the direction of a positive negotiation with our European counterparts. That's what we expect. "
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