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LeftishBrit

(41,516 posts)
Sun May 29, 2016, 12:12 PM May 2016

(From Torygraph): Tory MP Andrew Bridgen says David Cameron finished as party leader

senior Conservative MP has broken ranks for the first time to declare that David Cameron is “finished” as Tory leader and will have to be replaced after the European Union referendum.

In a dramatic intervention, Andrew Bridgen said Mr Cameron had “infuriated” his own MPs and grassroots members with his “Project Fear” campaign to keep Britain in the EU and would face a leadership challenge, which could come as soon as next month.

Mr Bridgen, who is chairman of a Commons select committee, is the first MP publicly to warn Mr Cameron that he will have to resign or face a plot to oust him amid growing anger in the Tory party over the Prime Minister’s Remain campaign.

“David Cameron has placed himself front and centre of a disingenuous Remain campaign, setting himself at odds with half of the Parliamentary Party and 70 per cent of our members and activists on the most important issue facing our Country in a generation,” Mr Bridgen said. “Whatever the result, I believe his position will be untenable.”


http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/tory-mp-andrew-bridgen-says-david-cameron-is-finished-as-party-leader/ar-BBtB6zx?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=iehp

(I must say I'd never heard of Andrew Bridgen before...)

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