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Emergency Meeting Set To Be Called To Oust Prime Minister Over Brexit ‘Farce’

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A Tory grassroots plot to force Theresa May into quitting has secured enough support to trigger an emergency party meeting for a no-confidence vote.

 

The Prime Minister’s failure to secure Britain’s exit from the European Union has unleashed a furious uprising in the party.

 

Last night the threshold needed to demand an extraordinary general meeting of the party’s national convention, the most powerful body representing the rank and file, was reached.

 

Sources involved in the plot said the petition had been backed by at least 65 constituency association chairmen after the Prime Minister’s “spectacular failure to deliver” Brexit. “It’s a farce,” they added.

 

“If she’s not capable of doing the job, then somebody come forward that is because this just can’t go on.”

 

It will be at least a month before the meeting can be held and the results of the confidence vote will not be binding on the Prime Minister. But losing the support of the party’s volunteers, who give up their free time to knock on doors to rally support, would heap pressure on her to go.

 

It comes amid a slew of devastating polls for Mrs May as she prepares for local and European elections next month.

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