‘Tortoise’ Theresa May facing no-confidence vote, MPs warn

After Hammond gaffe, both sides of Brexit debate are furious with PM

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Theresa May at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet in November
(Image credit: Leon Neal / Getty Images)

Theresa May is dangerously close to a no-confidence vote over her handling of Brexit, with one Conservative MP comparing her to a “tortoise” and another saying she is more “vulnerable” than ever before.

May is under attack from “both wings of her own party”, says The Guardian. Her leadership is “openly questioned by MPs on all sides of her party”, according to The Daily Telegraph, and the Daily Mail has the Prime Minister in the grip of “Tory civil war”.

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