Theresa May Fights for Her Job as Tory Brexit Splits Widen
- Johnson suggests May does not believe in Brexit but he does
- May calls for unity and insists Chequers plan is not dead
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Theresa May is battling to assert her authority as U.K. prime minister after a disastrous start to her party’s annual conference threatened to explode into a full-blown leadership crisis.
Before the event had even begun, May found herself struggling to contain a row over a massive data breach and to fend off a brazen challenge over Brexit from her arch rival, Boris Johnson. The former U.K. foreign secretary called her plan “deranged.”