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"Be a challenge to mrs maes leadership of the conservative party and therefore her status as prime minister i mean it's certainly been a pretty daunting twenty four hours for her leadership there's no doubt about that i think what we've been reminded of these extrordinary divisions within the governing conservative party over britain's relationship with europe they've been there for thirty years but what's really brought it to a head i'll x as the fact that mrs may herself had to come down on one side or another should she come down for a softer said a hard brexit last friday at that cabinet meeting she came down for a softer brexit and that was always bound her to trigger a showdown in her posse now whether there's enough support amongst that the hard brexit is to get rid of her and not only that but it's replace it with leader and with someone who could bring off the hard brexit they dream about well that i'm not so sure about to come to this because it goes boris johnson the foreign secretary who has walked out was for many people the face of the brexit campaign he's being replaced by a man who jeremy hunt he was the health secretary in the uk he voted to stay in the european union how's this going to change things he did but he also now says that if he was given a second chance he would vote to leave i think in many ways what's interesting about this is about a changing of the god i mean there was a points where boris johnson was talks about it's a lot of potential future leader of the conservative party and now similar things that being said about jeremy hansson in many ways what's really interesting about his appointments as is that movements from being having been a remain to a lever and i think that's because he recognizes that's where the membership of the conservative party is moving out in the country but if you look at it all whoever was to inherit the leadership of the conservative posse whether it was boris johnson jeremy hunt's all theresa may continues they just have an almighty problem in front of them and that again brings me back to this idea of the profound crisis it is hard to see this conservative posse agreeing on any version of britain's future relationship with europe weather the one that theresa may outlined on friday or some hard brexit is would like the idea of just walking away with no deal it's all rob watson james menendez asked the conservative m p crispin blunt was boris johnson right to resign i think he was i understand his reasons and if he can't with a heart and soul sell the agreement that he and his cabinet colleagues have come to when he was right to resign as indeed was david davis who's he pointed out is he's going to have to negotiate this or at least be supposed to be negotiating isn't that so part of the problem about how restricted his role has been by theresa may in the of the negotiation so i'm not surprised that either resignation was been active principle in our inactive self interest i think that boris johnson hsieh's the potential future leader of the conservative party have been seriously damaged in his tenure as foreign secretary for a number of reasons so i didn't think it makes much difference one way or the other as far as he's concerned so"

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Prime Minister, Mrs Maes and Forty Eight Hours discussed on Global News Podcast

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