Tory Infighting Escalates Workers' Action Can Oust Them

Socialist Party executive committee

- Judy Beishon

How much longer will Theresa May be prime minister?Media reports suggest that around 40 Tory MPs have submitted letters calling for a no-confidence vote in her. If that reaches 48, the vote would be triggered and could lead to a leadership contest.

Tory infighting has escalated publicly at the highest levels. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson should be sacked, said former Tory minister Anna Soubry, because of “longstanding incompetence and disloyalty.” It’s the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, who should be sacked for disloyalty, declared Tory MP Nadine Dorries.

Insults are hurled back and forth across the party’s main political divide, between right-wing Brexiters and pro-capitalist Remainers. After Remainers were accused of being “traitors,” energy minister Claire Perry on WhatsApp called the accusers the “swivel-eyed few.”