Brexit Talks May Not Begin On June 19

A stream of Conservative lawmakers walked into 10 Downing St. on Sunday to learn if they had been promoted, demoted or kept in their posts.

Speaking to Sky Johnson said: ‘Theresa May has got by far the biggest mandate anybody has got for my party for decades.

Amid continued speculation that cabinet ministers were lining up behind a possible leadership challenge from Boris Johnson, a series of messages from the Foreign Secretary to MPs calling on them to back Mrs May emerged.

May on Sunday appointed an effective “Deputy Prime Minister” after her election disaster as long-time friend Damian Green was made First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office.

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Now, in order to forestall a potential civil war within her own party, she has reinstated Michael Gove as environment secretary.

May sidestepped direct questioning on whether she intends to serve a full term at prime minister, following calls for her to resign in the wake of the election debacle.

But rumors swirled of plots to oust May.

In response to thee Mail on Sunday’s headline Johnson tweeted: “Mail on Sunday tripe – I am backing Theresa may”.

“To those that say the PM should step down, or that we need another election or even – God help us – a second referendum, I say come off it. Get a grip, everyone”, he wrote in an article for The Sun.

May’s party fell eight seats short of retaining their parliamentary majority, and is now in talks with Northern Ireland’s ultra-conservative Democratic Union Party (DUP) – which won 10 seats – to forge an informal alliance. The Labor Party surpassed expectations by winning 262.

The prime minister is due to face MPs later today, where she could face demands to quit over her lacklustre campaign and decision to call the election in the first place.

In response to a question from Marr, Corbyn said he would be prepared to see pro-EU Blairites return to his shadow cabinet, declaring, “I’m the most generous person in the world”. But few believe she can hang on for more than a few months.

When asked if she was in floods of tears on Friday, Davis told ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” show: “Not when I saw her”. The premier was unable to carry out wholesale cabinet changes that had been mooted before the election, with most ministers staying in the same jobs.

Some experts suggest that fresh elections will be called after a short-lived coalition government collapses during the Brexit negotiations which are set to begin next week.

May’s plan involves leaving the EU’s single market and imposing restrictions on immigration while trying to negotiate a free-trade deal with the bloc.

And according to The Daily Telegraph, some of the most senior members of May’s team have held “secret talks” with members of the opposition Labour Party to ensure a soft Brexit.

May’s only hope of forming a government now is to win support from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, which won ten seats.

The Tories and the DUP are considering a “confidence and supply” deal which would see the Northern Irish party back the Government to get its Budget through and on confidence motions.

The leader of the Britain’s third largest party the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron, dismissed the reshuffle as “rearranging the deckchairs as the Titanic goes down”.

The alliance makes some modernizing Conservatives uneasy.

In a phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday, May said Britain “is looking for a reciprocal agreement on the rights of European Union citizens and British citizens overseas at an early stage”.

On 19 June the Queen opens the new parliament and announces the government’s legislative programme.

Additional delay may be caused by the fact the speech read by the sovereign is written on goatskin parchment paper, a long-lasting archival paper which contains no actual goatskin, but requires several days for the ink to dry. By tradition, defeat on a Queen’s Speech vote topples the government. The British public have in effect voted “to leave the European Union but in a way that doesn’t affect their lives or their jobs or anything to do with them or their sector”, he said. Without the amendments, he said, Labor would try to vote down the speech.