Reuters
Critics of Theresa May’s Brexit plans stepped up their efforts on Sunday to force the British prime minister to change tack on leaving the European Union, setting the tone for one of the worst-tempered conferences for her Conservative Party.
Her former foreign secretary and former Brexit minister both came out to rubbish her so-called Chequers plan, just six months before Britain is due to leave the EU in the country’s biggest shift in foreign and trade policy in more than 40 years.
Boris Johnson called her plans “deranged” and David Davis said her proposals were “just wrong”, part of a concerted attack on a prime minister whose fragile leadership was undermined further when the EU rejected parts of Chequers this month.
In the central English city of Birmingham, where her party’s conference will run until Wednesday, she faces watching potential rivals parade in front of Conservative members, aware that some in the party believe that she should step aside.
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