If Theresa May wants to deliver a Brexit deal, she must compromise with the EU and with the majority in the Commons. That’s why Tory rightwingers are so angry
To observe the Conservative party at Westminster on Monday was to watch a party that seems closer than ever to falling apart over Brexit. Paradoxically, however, nothing in the politics of Britain’s planned departure from the European Union had actually changed since last week. Theresa May still leads a minority government and a divided party, as she did before the weekend. Talks with the EU remain stalled over the Northern Ireland backstop arrangement, just as last week. Meanwhile Labour remains just as neuralgic about giving leadership to anti-Brexit concerns in the country as before. Many of the essentials remain unchanged, yet something has changed all the same.
That something seems to be the confidence of rightwing Brexiter Conservative MPs that they will get the destructive and comprehensive break with the EU that they crave and are working for. The evidence for this altered mood came in multiple guises. The most chilling was the unusually vicious language which rightwing and Europhobic Tory MPs used over the weekend, under cover of anonymity, to attack Mrs May – that she would be “dead soon”, that the knife would be “stuck in her front and twisted”, that she was “in the killing zone” and that she should “bring her own noose”. These are the words of Tory MPs – male Tory MPs, it can safely be assumed – who have lost sight of propriety and proportion as they rage, not against her but against their own political powerlessness.
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