BREXIT might never happen because rebel MPs keep blocking the deal and trying to boot out Theresa May instead, a senior Tory has warned.
As grandees prepared to discuss her fate later today, Charles Walker said the vicious Tory infighting meant the “balance of probability” was that Britain now could remain in the EU.
And he called on Tory MPs had to unite to just get any form of Brexit over the line or risk Jeremy Corbyn moving into No.10.
Mr Walker is one of 18 backbenchers on the 1922 due to meet at 4pm to discuss a timetable for Theresa May’s departure.
Sir Graham Brady, the 1922 chair, is expected to reveal the outcome of a conversation with the PM yesterday.
Mr Walker – 1922 vice chair and May ‘loyalist’ – said: “Everybody has a view but removing this Prime Minister in the next few weeks is not going to make our position any easier.
“I have supported the deal I just want the UK to leave the EU on a legal basis.
“The substance of the deal can be sorted out at a later date but we have to remove the UK from the EU and honour the referendum.”
He added: “We may end up with nothing. The balance of probability is that we may end up remaining. You can’t allow perfection to be the enemy of the best as you invariably end up doing nothing.
“And yes then we will end up with a Marxist as Prime Minister and we’ll be going round scratching our heads wondering: ‘How did that happen?’”
Rebels on the 1922 last month lost a bid to force a rule change to trigger a new no confidence vote in the PM by 9 votes to 7 – with two abstentions.
Nigel Evans, another 1922 exec, this morning reiterated his call for the Prime Minister to go by mid-June. He said: “It’s crazy. She says she’ll go if she passes a Brexit deal – but will stay if she doesn’t.”
Referring to the PM’s new Brexit target date of August 1, he said: “On Brexit we’ve had more dates than a Turkish food stall.”
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