{"id":346557,"date":"2018-02-02T23:35:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T22:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-may-faces-leadership-challenge-corbyn-and-labour-make-brexit-pitch-to-employers-groups\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T23:35:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T22:35:32","slug":"as-may-faces-leadership-challenge-corbyn-and-labour-make-brexit-pitch-to-employers-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-may-faces-leadership-challenge-corbyn-and-labour-make-brexit-pitch-to-employers-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"As May faces leadership challenge, Corbyn and Labour make Brexit pitch to employers\u2019 groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>As May faces leadership challenge, Corbyn and Labour make Brexit pitch to employers\u2019 groups<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Chris Marsden<br \/>\n    <br \/>2 February 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May is declared \u201cas vulnerable as she\u2019s ever been\u201d to a leadership challenge amid factional warfare in the Conservative Party.<\/p>\n<p>May has faced rebellion from both pro-Remain forces seeking to ensure a \u201csoft Brexit\u201d\u2014maintaining access to the Single European Market\u2014and the \u201chard-Brexit\u201d advocates who see this as a backdoor method of overturning the result of last year\u2019s referendum decision to quit the European Union (EU). May, who must straddle this divide, is being shot at by both sides.<\/p>\n<p>The Brexit row escalated last week after Chancellor Philip Hammond stated that the UK and EU economies should diverge only \u201cvery modestly\u201d after Brexit. Pro-Brexit MPs reacted with fury, demanding that Hammond be sacked for suggesting that the UK would remain in the EU \u201cin all but name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of potential challengers to May, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson announced that he would be making a speech on the democratic case for Brexit that is intended to upstage a planned address by May. Jacob Rees-Mogg, chair of the European research group of pro-Leave backbenchers, told ITV\u2019s \u201cPeston on Sunday\u201d that, for the moment, he was \u201cbeing as loyal as could possibly be on the policy question, and I am biting my tongue on the personality question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A media campaign was launched to discredit Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, over an affair and his comments that Russia was preparing to kill \u201cthousands and thousands and thousands\u201d through cyber-attacks on UK infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> leaked a private email by Energy Minister Claire Perry attacking pro-Brexit MPs as \u201cswivel-eyed.\u201d \u201cThe \u2018sell out&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/02\/02\/brex-f02.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As May faces leadership challenge, Corbyn and Labour make Brexit pitch to employers\u2019 groups By Chris Marsden 2 February 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May is declared \u201cas vulnerable as she\u2019s ever been\u201d to a leadership challenge amid factional warfare in the Conservative Party. May has faced rebellion from both pro-Remain forces seeking to ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}