{"id":21926,"date":"2018-11-15T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21926"},"modified":"2018-11-15T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:22:11","slug":"british-government-in-turmoil-as-ministers-quit-over-theresa-mays-brexit-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21926","title":{"rendered":"British government in turmoil as ministers quit over Theresa May&#8217;s Brexit deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"34\">\n<div readability=\"6\">\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<p>Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks in the House of Commons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"b2e512cf\">Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks in the House of Commons<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Westminster is awash with reports that members of British Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s own Conservative Party will trigger a vote of no-confidence in her leadership. <strong>Jacob Rees-Mogg,<\/strong> a leading Brexiteer, just stood up in the House of Commons to ask May why he should not submit a letter to Conservative Party officials demanding such a vote. <\/p>\n<p>Rees-Mogg said:<\/p>\n<div class=\"b2310ea3\">\n<p><span>As what my right honorable friend says, and what my right honorable friend does, no longer match, should I not write to my right honorable friend the member for Altrincham and Sale West?<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Parliamentary convention often requires MPs to speak in arcane language, and Rees-Mogg revels in it. <\/p>\n<p>What he meant was that, in his judgment,  May&#8217;s actions don&#8217;t match up to her promises, giving him good reason to submit a letter demanding a confidence vote to Sir Graham Brady, the party official who represents the interests of Conservative MPs. (Brady is the MP for Altrincham and Sale West, in northwest England.)<\/p>\n<p>If 48 MPs submit such letters, Brady must allow a vote of no-confidence in May.<\/p>\n<p>It was a dramatic moment: Sitting just behind Rees-Mogg in the House of Commons chamber was the Conservative chief whip, Julian Smith, the man responsible for internal party discipline. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks in the House of Commons Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks in the House of Commons Westminster is awash with reports that members of British Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s own Conservative Party will trigger a vote of no-confidence in her leadership. Jacob Rees-Mogg, a leading Brexiteer, just stood up in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}