A day after a reported million people took to the streets to demand a second referendum on Brexit, Theresa May is reportedly facing a plan to oust her within days.
Reports of a Cabinet coup to demand she quits over her handling of Brexit dominate the Sunday papers today.
According to The Sunday Times, 11 cabinet ministers want May to step aside and make way for a replacement.
Her de facto deputy David Lidington has been named as her potential caretaker replacement, while several are said to be ready to throw their weight behind Environment Secretary Michael Gove.
Mays former policy adviser MP George Freeman said it was all over for the PM, tweeting: Shes done her best. But across the country you can see the anger.
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Everyone feels betrayed. Governments gridlocked. Trust in democracy collapsing. This cant go on. We need a new PM who can reach out (and) build some sort of coalition for a Plan B.
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Pro-EU former education secretary Nicky Morgan told the Sunday Telegraph that Cabinet ministers should tell Mrs May its time to go while Brexiteer Steve Baker said potential leadership contenders in the Government should act now.
Tory backbencher Anne-Marie Trevelyan wrote in the same paper: We now need a leader who believes in our country and wants to take her on the next stage of her journey.
Conservative peer Lord Gadhia, a former member of David Camerons inner circle, said the upcoming days in Parliament may be very dramatic and could see the end of Mrs Mays time as premier.
On Saturday, around one million people were said by organisers to have joined a march on Parliament demanding a final say for the public over Brexit.
Marchers waving EU flags and carrying their placards emblazoned with political messages weaved their way from Hyde Park Corner to Parliament Square.
Elsewhere, pro-Brexit campaigners will continue their long hike from the North East to the capital, leaving Loughborough on Sunday morning.
After another turbulent week for the Prime Minister which saw her come under fire for delaying Brexit and seeking to blame MPs for the impasse, the Commons was expected to be given the third chance to vote on her Withdrawal Agreement this week.
But on Friday night Mrs May wrote to parliamentarians warning if there is insufficient support for her Withdrawal Agreement in the coming days that she could seek an extension to Britains EU membership beyond the EuropeanRead More
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