Brexiteers call for May to go

Yet the rebels are unable to agree on a viable successor – or a credible Brexit plan. Emily Hohler reports.

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Johnson: pledging allegiance, plotting a coup
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Theresa May could face a leadership challenge within days after 50 Tory MPs met on Tuesday night to discuss getting rid of her, says The Daily Telegraph. The MPs who attended the meeting are members of the European Research Group (ERG) and are determined to "kill off" May's Chequers plan. As one attendee put it, "If she won't chuck Chequers then I'm afraid the party will chuck her."

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.