Having put herself at the mercy of her wrathful party: “I got us into this mess and I’m going to get us out of it,” the prime minister told Tory MPs during Monday’s meeting of backbench Conservatives, Theresa May will survive long enough to start talks with Michel Barnier and co next week.
But the chances of her premiership surviving until the official closing of the Article 50 window in March 2019 are extremely remote.
The expected ‘confidence and supply’ coalition with the Dem...
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