THREE Conservative MPs have quit the party over the British government's "disastrous handling of Brexit", in a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May's attempts to unite her party around plans to leave the European Union. THREE Conservative MPs have quit the party over the British government's "disastrous handling of Brexit", in a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May's attempts to unite her party around plans to leave the European Union. The right-wing, the hard-line anti-EU awkward squad that have destroyed every leader for the last 40 years are now running the Conservative Party from top to toe," Soubry told reporters. Soubry said most local Conservative Party associations had been infiltrated by anti-EU activists and that she hoped other Conservative lawmakers would join her in leaving the party. Trying to unite her party around her Brexit plan has been a difficult balancing act for the prime minister.

Source: Irish Independent February 20, 2019 12:33 UTC