After a savage attack by a top Tory donor, Prime Minister Theresa May's hold on power is starting to look shaky.
Meanwhile her inevitable successor, hard-line anti-abortion Catholic and Eurosceptic "aristocrat," Jacob Rees-Mogg continues his meteoric rise in the party, being appointed to the Brexit Select Committee, aka "the Exiting the European Union Committee."
May was denounced as a a "hopeless" leader of a "weak" government by Lord Harris of Peckham, one of the country's richest men who has been a member of the Conservative Party for 50 years.
"I thought for the first three or four weeks she did well," he said in an interview with the Times newspaper. "Then she did the election and she was hopeless. She's changed her mind too many times. I think she was shell-shocked but she's got to start making decisions, or someone has... "
This is seen as the start of a "whispering campaign" to remove her that is expected to gain strength through the Autumn and lead to her removal before Xmas. The main problem that May has is that her main job is Brexit but she simply doesn't believe in it.
While May's star falls that of Rees-Mogg, a firm Euroskeptic, deeply opposed to the EU continues to rise with more and more grassroots Tories declaring support for him. His election by fellow MPs to the Brexit Select committee, otherwise known as “the Exiting the European Union Committee,” is a sign of his growing popularity.
As most MPs are too busy or too lazy to deal with all the business of the House of Commons, most of the important parliamentary work is done by select committees. The Brexit Committee is the most important select committee and plays a vital role scrutinising the work of the government's Department for Exiting the European Union.
Beside Rees-Mogg, nine other MPs were elected to the committee:
Peter Bone
Chris Chope
Stephen Crabb
Jonathan Djanogly
Richard Graham
Andrea Jenkyns
Jeremy Lefroy
Craig Mackinlay
Jacob Rees-Mogg
John Whittingdale
It's worth noting that of the ten members of the committe, only one is a woman.
