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by NeedMoreTea 2519 days ago
Whatever the former prime minister, or the current prime minister say, it only becomes so once it is voted into being. When you have a majority of 3, and a controversial policy, prior to vote it's just aspiration. If Theresa was lying, Boris is likely to be lying. Neither brought good governance.

Unless there is an election and the Tory party are returned with increased majority, it is certain that the current prime minister will have as little success in the house as his predecessor. They have a majority of 3, soon to be 2, held up by the DUP. There are enough moderates left in the Tory party to lose the government a vote on every problematic exit scenario, and on a no-deal exit, just as was the case for Theresa.

> Meeting Israelis without filing the right paperwork is trivial compared to it

No, it was worthy of dismissal. She preempted that by resigning. She was not Foreign Secretary or Prime Minister. It was not her role to make policy on the hoof on a topic irrelevant to her office. She blew her chance to explain by continuing to leave out some of the meetings, resulting in a second summons to Downing St. She does not deserve to return to senior office.

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That may well be the case, but May didn't have to ask for an extension to Article 50 or have a man as her Chancellor who was totally against no deal. She chose to do those things. And it was - to nobody's surprise - later revealed that she never even brought up the possibility of no deal with her EU counterparts.

In the end, the current cabinet is much more likely to try and implement the Conservative's actual manifesto. The only reason you describe that as immoderate and extreme is you want them to fail to do so. It wouldn't be considered so if "UK" and "EU" were replaced with random tokens and presented to people who weren't invested in British/EU politics.

No one in their right mind would expect them to mention the possibility of no-deal - it's the idiotic option to be avoided. Mentioning it or threatening it in negotiations is brinkmanship of the worst kind, as a no-deal is more damaging for us than the EU.

Moderate and immoderate are well known and defined political positions completely unrelated to how you are attempting to redefine them.