Update 4: During a brief address to her Tory peers after the results were announced, May said that she had listened to her critics, but that now it is time to 'get on with it' and pass a Brexit withdrawal treaty.
BREAKING: "We now need to get on with the job of delivering Brexit," Theresa May says after winning confidence vote https://t.co/dmIjrRyZNK pic.twitter.com/Sglxxc6vJz— Bloomberg Brexit (@Brexit) December 12, 2018the Guardian:
As ITV's Robert Peston pointed out, more than half of the independent Tory MPs (that is, those who don't hold a post in the government), voted against the prime minister, which hardly inspires confidence.
Well over half of independent Tory MPs voted against her - and even then she had to concede she would not lead party into next election.— Robert Peston (@Peston) December 12, 2018
As Bloomberg's David Goodman points out, this doesn't bode well for May's Brexit deal.
Assuming those 117 Tory MPs will vote against May's Brexit deal (obviously not a given), that result bodes pretty badly for her chances of getting it through Parliament.
Already, May's intraparty rivals are piling on...
- EUROSCEPTIC LAWMAKER REES-MOGG SAYS THIS IS A TERRIBLE RESULT
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn said the vote this evening makes no difference to British people, according to Bloomberg.
May will now return to Brussels on Thursday without the strong mandate she had hoped to win. She will face off against EU leaders with "her leadership shaken and leaving behind a bitterly divided party," according to the Financial Times."The Prime Minister has lost her majority in Parliament, her government is in chaos and she is unable to deliver a Brexit deal that works for the country and puts jobs and the economy first."
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