Tory backstabbers are sharpening their knives – but who thought the first would be AMBER RUDD?

Look out behind you! Amber Rudd has been the first to undermine Theresa May.

Conservative MPs are conforming to type – backstabbing their leader in times of trouble.

Public opinion has turned against Theresa May over her disastrous Brexit plan, so her MPs are preparing to push her out of office.

But who would have thought that the first person to undermine her would be Amber Rudd?

Ms Rudd is Mrs May’s trusted lieutenant – the one she sent in to bat for the Tories in a TV debate before the 2017 general election while she ran scared.

It may seem doubly strange that Ms Rudd was the first to plunge the knife in, as she won her Hastings and Rye Parliamentary seat with a majority of just 346 in the 2017 general election, after several recounts, and is likely to lose the seat at the next election.

Still, she took to the airwaves to proclaim a “Plan B” in opposition to Mrs May’s “only plan on the table” – a “Norway-plus” option that would see the UK retain access to the EU’s single market and also join a customs union.

This is what she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:

Unfortunately for Ms Rudd, it seems she lacks the judgement needed to choose a workable option – and that’s not a good look for a leader-to-be.

Consider:

It seems more likely that Ms Rudd has sealed her own fate, besides launching the first volley against Mrs May.

But with the prime minister likely to lose the “meaningful vote” at 8.30pm on Tuesday, it’s only a matter of time before more Tory MPs line up to take their shot at her.

Visit our JustGiving page to help Vox Political’s Mike Sivier fight anti-Semitism libels in court


Vox Political needs your help!
If you want to support this site
(
but don’t want to give your money to advertisers)
you can make a one-off donation here:

Donate Button with Credit Cards

Here are four ways to be sure you’re among the first to know what’s going on.

1) Register with us by clicking on ‘Subscribe’ (in the left margin). You can then receive notifications of every new article that is posted here.

2) Follow VP on Twitter @VoxPolitical

3) Like the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/VoxPolitical/

Join the Vox Political Facebook page.

4) You could even make Vox Political your homepage at http://voxpoliticalonline.com

And do share with your family and friends – so they don’t miss out!

If you have appreciated this article, don’t forget to share it using the buttons at the bottom of this page. Politics is about everybody – so let’s try to get everybody involved!

Buy Vox Political books so we can continue
fighting for the facts.


The Livingstone Presumption is now available
in either print or eBook format here:

HWG PrintHWG eBook

Health Warning: Government! is now available
in either print or eBook format here:

HWG PrintHWG eBook

The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:

SWAHTprint SWAHTeBook

7 Comments

  1. Bob Scott December 9, 2018 at 7:26 am - Reply

    I subscribe to Vox and in the main enjoy your articles. However, I no longer share those articles to the Scottish Independence sites that I support. This is due to the photo of Jeremy Corbyn that you use on your banner. He and his party of abstainers are no friends of Scotland. Time to change the format and become more impartial.

    • John D. Ingleson December 10, 2018 at 10:16 am - Reply

      ‘Speak for your self – ‘time to find somewhere else for your news and don’t let the door hit you on the way out…

  2. Sam Gee December 9, 2018 at 7:09 pm - Reply

    To which the Scots voted for Conservative rather than the SDP….. get over yourself.

  3. Pat Sheehan December 9, 2018 at 11:50 pm - Reply

    Ah, just listen to that! We don’t want you! “You’ll mess it all up for Norway just like you have all messed it up for yourselves”! And who was it conspired to mess it all up so deliberately and engineered it to such perfect chaos. None other than joe-tory, the so called ‘masters of fiscal competence and economic success’ who had no idea the channel tunnel was so important to our livelihood in the UK but would nevertheless lead us to a land of milk and honey to ‘rightly regain our former greatness at the cutting edge of a new fantasy empire’ ! If only we could see ourselves our Europe sees us: hapless cases worthy of derision: it would be a start!

  4. nmac064 December 10, 2018 at 11:23 am - Reply

    It would be nice to see these nasty, dishonest and corrupt Tories literally annihilate each other.

  5. Colin Clarke December 10, 2018 at 8:42 pm - Reply

    It seems the Tories are reading the right wing press and using anti Corbyn quotes that they themselves made up in the first instance. Are they so good at lying that they now believe their own lies? Time they retirned to their private islands and retired to their private beaches. They are now into self-kidology!

  6. Barry Davies December 12, 2018 at 1:28 pm - Reply

    Should have done it weeks ago.

Leave A Comment