BRITISH POLITICS
Will Theresa May survive Conservative conference as Brexit clock ticks?
The British leader is under attack from leading rival Boris Johnson over her strategy for pulling Britain out of the EU
Birmingham — Prime Minister Theresa May gathered her party for its annual conference on Sunday under attack from leading rival Boris Johnson over her strategy for pulling Britain out of the EU. The Conservative leader arrived in Birmingham only days after the EU rejected her plan for close trade links post-Brexit and demanded a rethink before a summit in the middle of October. Many of her euro-sceptic MPs also oppose the proposal and, led by former foreign minister Johnson, will use the conference to argue for a looser trade agreement instead. Johnson, long tipped as a successor to May, has published his own Brexit programme and condemned her plan as "deranged" and "preposterous". May also came under pressure from pro-Europeans in her party, with protesters set to hold a rally in Birmingham for a second Brexit vote — which she has ruled out. The prime minister said her plan was the only way to protect cross-border trade in goods and avoid physical checks on the Irish border. "My mes...
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