While Theresa May will hardly relish being the first prime minister subjected to a confidence vote for more than a quarter of a century, it has at least given her a day’s pause from grappling with the consequences of her crushing defeat. The prime minister has in fact set out a relatively clear plan of action for attempting to salvage her Brexit negotiations and her political career. First, she will task a group of her ministers with talking to MPs from other parties to try to identify “what would be required” to secure a majority in the Commons for a Brexit deal. Second, she will take whatever ideas those meetings yield, as long as they are “genuinely negotiable”, to Brussels and “explore them” with the…

Source: The Times January 16, 2019 17:08 UTC