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THERESA MAY will face a showdown meeting tomorrow evening with Tory MPs who are demanding that she names a date for her resignation.
Back-bench Conservatives in the influential 1922 Committee have urged her to say exactly when she will quit as Prime Minister in exchange for them to throw their support behind her twice-rejected Brexit deal.
Ms May – who has said she would leave by summer 2022 – cannot have another motion of no confidence tabled against her as Tory leader as she has a year’s immunity since surviving the first one in December.
Starmer struggles to save leadership amid polling calamity
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
