May's comment that she feared ‘we are reaching the limits of this process in this House’, was seen by many as a hint she could be moving to an election
British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves following a Sunday church service on March 31 2019 in Maidenhead, England. Picture: GETTY IMAGES / JACK TAYLOR
The Sunday Times reported her media chief, Robbie Gibb, and her political aide, Stephen Parkinson, were pushing for an election. May's deal was rejected for a third time on Friday. Even if she were to agree to go sooner, a Conservative leadership contest is likely to take weeks at a minimum. Many MPs are likely to be unhappy standing on a manifesto which pledged to implement May's deal. More than 100 Conservative MPs opposed the deal when it was first voted on in January, 75 voted against it at the second try and 34 at the third attempt on Friday.A poll by Opinium published on Sunday put May's Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party level on 35 percentage points each.
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