Tag: Nigel Evans

• Thursday, April 25th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Tories call for more clarity from PM May as to how long she will remain in office

  

  Senior Tories have ruled out changing their rules to allow an early challenge to Theresa May's leadership, but have asked for more clarity about how long she will remain in office. Under current rules, MPs cannot hold a new confidence vote in her leadership until December - 12 months on from last year's vote which she won.

• Friday, December 7th 2018 - 10:12 UTC

  Calls for a second Brexit referendum in the next 22 months to avoid Parliament gridlock

  

  Parliament will be “gridlocked” no matter what the Brexit deal, former Cabinet minister Justine Greening warned as she urged the Government to “ask the people” to break the impasse. The Tory former education secretary told MPs a referendum could be held in the next 22 weeks as she derided Theresa May’s current plan.

• Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 14:53 UTC

  Hammond admits post-Brexit transitional deal up, but until general election in 2022

  

  Any “transitional deal” in the period after Brexit must end by June 2022, the time of the next general election, Philip Hammond has said. But the chancellor said there must be “business as usual, life as normal” for Britons as the UK left the EU.