Brexit supporters will ‘likely’ call for a vote of no confidence in her as their leader tomorrow, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said, citing a senior member of the Conservative Party.

She said Brexiteers were so angry about May’s draft deal to leave the European Union that they were submitting letters to the head of a committee of Conservative lawmakers responsible for handling any leadership challenge.

People are not keen on her Brexit deal (Picture: Getty)

‘Senior Tory (Conservative) tells me Brexiteer anger so high that seems likely there will be a call for no-confidence vote tomorrow – letters going in,’ she said on Twitter.

If 48 letters are sent to the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee, this will trigger a showdown.




At the moment it is not clear how many have been sent, but anger is growing at what has been described as a ‘worst of both worlds’ Brexit.

Leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, who has previously held back from calling for Mrs May’s removal, said yesterday that ‘there comes a point at which the policy and the individual become so intimately connected that it will be very hard to carry on supporting the person who is promoting this policy’.

Senior tory tells me Brexiteer anger so high that seems likely there will be a call for no confidence vote tomorrow – letters going in – — Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) November 14, 2018

Tensions were heightened by reports that senior Brussels negotiator Sabine Weyand had told ambassadors the deal will mean the UK aligns its rules with Europe, while the EU ‘will retain all the controls’.

Speaking in the Commons, leading Brexiteer Peter Bone told the PM: ‘If the media reports about the EU agreement are in any way accurate, you will not be delivering the Brexit people voted for and today you will lose the support of many Conservative MPs and millions of voters across the country.’

The deputy chairman of the European Research Group of Eurosceptic Tories, Mark Francois, said Cabinet ministers should ‘look into their hearts and decide whether a Jaguar and a red box and a bunch of sycophantic civil servants calling you ‘Minister’ is more important than the destiny of your country’.

Leave-backing Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said: ‘This isn’t Brexit, it’s not even close to Brexit.

‘If it were darts, it’s not missing the board, this is not even the right wall.’

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