PressTV-80 Tories against British PM plan on Brexit

British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a new challenge in her attempts to go through with negotiations to bring Britain out of the European Union as some 80 members of her Conservative Party have announced she should either revise her Brexit strategy or face a party rebellion.

A former junior minister from May’s ruling party said Monday that 80 or more of Tory lawmakers in the House of Commons are prepared to vote against the premier’s Chequers plan, which is named after May’s country residence where she announced her final plan of action for Brexit talks in early July.

Steve Baker said that May could have a paramount challenge to sell her Chequers plan in a party conference which will begin at the end of September.

Baker, who resigned along with two senior ministers in May’s cabinet in protest to the Chequers, said if the 80 or more conservative lawmakers, from a total of 315 Tories in the parliament, vote against the…

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