Facing her critics: Theresa May calls on party to unite behind her


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Birmingham: British Prime Minister Theresa May has called on her party to unite behind her plan to leave the European Union, making a direct appeal to critics by saying their desire for a free trade deal was at the heart of her Brexit proposals.


Theresa May sits in audience during the Conservative Party annual conference in Birmingham on Sunday.

Theresa May sits in audience during the Conservative Party annual conference in Birmingham on Sunday.


Photo: Bloomberg

At the start of one of the Conservative Party’s stormiest annual conferences on Sunday, May’s plans were once again attacked by two former ministers, with her ex-foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, calling them “deranged”.


But she won strong backing from other Brexit supporting ministers, with Trade Minister Liam Fox and Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt turning their anger against the EU, for “taunting Theresa May, one of the most unfailingly polite people”.


Demonstrators protest against Brexit as the governing Conservative Party start their annual four-day party conference on Sunday.

Demonstrators protest against Brexit as the governing Conservative Party start their annual four-day party conference on Sunday.


Photo: AP

Just six months before Britain is due to leave the EU in the country’s biggest shift in foreign and trade policy in more than 40 years, the debate over how to leave the bloc is still raging in the centre-right Conservative Party, and even in government.


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