Brexit Anna Soubry urges May to 'sling out' arch Brexiters Former business minister says she won’t stay in a party ‘taken over by Rees-Mogg and Johnson’ Anna Soubry said Theresa May could lose her leadership unless she stood up to ‘hard ideological Brexiters’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the GuardianLeading pro-Europe Conservative MP Anna Soubry has told the prime minister to “sling out” arch Brexiters as she threatened to quit the party and form a new political alliance. Soubry told BBC2’s Newsnight: “If it comes to it, I am not going to stay in a party which has been taken over by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson. My frontbench probably isn’t, but it is in hock to 35 hard ideological Brexiters who are not Tories. “They are not the Tory party I joined 40 years ago and it is about time Theresa stood up to them and slung ‘em out.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2018 08:26 UTC