The prime minister has lost her majority and rebellion is simmering in her party. Will she survive another 12 months?Theresa May began the year with a healthy majority in parliament,a commanding poll lead and an apparently unassailable grip on the Conservatives. She ends it relying on the Democratic Unionist party to govern, with rebellion simmering among MPs on both wings of her party – yet doggedly insisting she is getting on with the job”.
But 2018 will bring a fresh set of daunting challenges. First, or colouring everything else,is Brexit. The prime minister snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in December by securing the EU27’s agreement that “sufficient progress” had been reached to proceed to the next stage of negotiations.
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Source: guardian.co.uk