British PM May tells her party: stop squabbling or risk letting Labour into power: Sky

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British PM May tells her party: stop squabbling or risk letting Labour into power: Sky

 

Tennis - Wimbledon - London, Britain - July 16, 2017 Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband Philip May applaud as Switzerland’s Roger Federer celebrates winning the final against Croatia’s Marin Cilic REUTERS/Daniel Leal-Olivas/Pool

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May told Conservative Party lawmakers that they should stop backbiting or risk letting Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn into power, Sky News reported.

 

After she lost her majority in a botched election gamble, some senior ministers have resorted to public bickering over Brexit and state spending as they manoeuvre in expectation she will soon be toppled.

 

At a summer party for Conservative lawmakers, May told lawmakers that there should be "no backbiting, no carping", Sky said.

 

"The choice is me or Jeremy Corbyn – and nobody wants him," May told her lawmakers, according to the Daily Mail newspaper. "Go away, have a proper summer break and come back ready for serious business."

 

May will warn ministers on Tuesday that cabinet discussions should not be leaked and that public squabbling must end, Sky said.

 

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; editing by Paul Sandle)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-07-18

[champers]

She can say what she likes, but she has lost her authority. Less than 10 dissentors in the ranks would see the end of her as PM. Contenders for her job will be busy on the phones over the summer break without any nosey whips or journalists about.

[terryw]

It is an empty threat to say that the choice is either her or Corbyn as PM.

 

Under the 5 year Parliament Act it needs 75% of MP's to vote for a new Election. The Tories do not want or need to have an Election until 2022.

 

TM's days as PM might be numbered, but the next PM will definitely be a Tory.

[dunroaming]

I think that Corbyn as PM would be a disaster at this stage.  The Tories need to see this Brexit through but it is hard to see who is up to the job.  Nothing much will happen until after the summer hols but it might be an interesting Autumn.

[Grouse]

I'm conVINCEd it's time for a change ?

[nauseus]

2 hours ago, Grouse said:

I'm conVINCEd it's time for a change ?

But then cable would head back down again.

[Enoon]

 

How nice and tidy if the future was just a matter of "Tories out, Labour in!"

 

That would be the "soft" future.

 

Unfortunately It's going to be much more "interesting" than that.