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| Election results: Heidi Allen says Theresa May 'will be gone in six months' after disastrous outcome | Election results: Heidi Allen says Theresa May 'will be gone in six months' after disastrous outcome |
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| Heidi Allen has become the first Conservative MP to say publicly that she believes Theresa May will be gone in the next six months. | Heidi Allen has become the first Conservative MP to say publicly that she believes Theresa May will be gone in the next six months. |
| The South Cambridgeshire MP said she does not believe Ms May will remain Prime Minister "indefinitely" and said her premiership may now be a "period of transition" as the country negotiates Brexit. | |
| She told LBC's Iain Dale: "If this was any other election in any other time in our history you could say yes the Prime Minister needs to stand down but this is different of course because we are about to start negotiating Brexit so that puts an entirely different complexion on that. | |
| "We do need a Prime Minister at this moment." | |
| Ms Allen, who is an outspoken backbench rebel, blamed the party's failure to win a majority squarely on the campaign. | |
| The night saw several big scalps, including Ben Gummer who wrote the party's manifesto, as the party lost 12 seats with 649 out of 650 results declared. | |
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