Tory backbenchers ‘to tell May to leave by end of June’

Disgruntled Brexiteers intensifying efforts to oust the Prime Minister

Prime minister Theresa May
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Disgruntled Conservative MPs will intensify their efforts to oust Theresa May from Downing Street, according to reports this morning.

The Daily Telegraph reports that May will be told to name the date of her departure or face being ousted in June after the party’s “patience with her finally ran out”.

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