Who has more to fear from their frontbench? On the Conservative side, Amber Rudd refused to rule out resigning to prevent a no-deal Brexit on Newsnight, while Richard Harrington has dared Theresa May to sack him from his post as business minister after saying that no deal is a disaster that must be taken off the table sooner rather than later.
The significance is Tuesday’s looming vote on the government’s Brexit strategy, and the three amendments that would “rule out no deal”: Rachel Reeves’ amendment calling on the government to request an extension to the Article 50 process, Yvette Cooper’s amendment that would bring forward legislation to compel the government to do so, and a non-binding amendment from Caroline Spelman calling on no deal to be ruled out by means unknown. May faces the prospect of further resignations from her government and the pool of available Conservative MPs to replace them who aren’t opposed to her Brexit strategy is very, very thin.
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