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| Theresa May indicated she would seek to fight off any leadership challenge from Boris Johnson and suggested she would lead the Conservatives into the next general election as she repeated a promise to lead the party “for the long term”. | Theresa May indicated she would seek to fight off any leadership challenge from Boris Johnson and suggested she would lead the Conservatives into the next general election as she repeated a promise to lead the party “for the long term”. |
| The prime minister said she was in politics “to deliver for the British people” and told journalists she would highlight housing, healthcare and other non-Brexit domestic issues in a relaunch at next month’s party conference in Birmingham. | The prime minister said she was in politics “to deliver for the British people” and told journalists she would highlight housing, healthcare and other non-Brexit domestic issues in a relaunch at next month’s party conference in Birmingham. |
| When asked specifically if she would contest a leadership challenge from Johnson, the former foreign secretary, May said she hoped to fight on as prime minister: “I am in this for the long term. I am in this for delivering for the British people, and that’s what I’m focused on.” | |
| Johnson remains a serious threat to May at a time when much of the party’s grassroots is unhappy with her Chequers Brexit proposals, a negotiating plan that led to his resignation from the cabinet and him arguing that Britain would be “reduced to the status of a colony” if it was adopted. | Johnson remains a serious threat to May at a time when much of the party’s grassroots is unhappy with her Chequers Brexit proposals, a negotiating plan that led to his resignation from the cabinet and him arguing that Britain would be “reduced to the status of a colony” if it was adopted. |
| The prime minister, meanwhile, has to face her party’s annual conference in September at a time when she is under pressure to demonstrate she can make progress in the Brexit negotiations and show she has the energy to take the Conservatives forward after March 2019. | The prime minister, meanwhile, has to face her party’s annual conference in September at a time when she is under pressure to demonstrate she can make progress in the Brexit negotiations and show she has the energy to take the Conservatives forward after March 2019. |
| May said she would focus on “the domestic agenda” at the event in Birmingham and singled out policies “to actively increase housebuilding so young people have an opportunity to get their feet on to the housing ladder, when so many fear they are not going to be able to do that”. | May said she would focus on “the domestic agenda” at the event in Birmingham and singled out policies “to actively increase housebuilding so young people have an opportunity to get their feet on to the housing ladder, when so many fear they are not going to be able to do that”. |
| The prime minister also said she wanted to showcase “what we’re doing in technical education to improve opportunities for young people”, and “a sustainable 10-year plan from the NHS to deliver better outcomes for patients” after she agreed to boost its finances by £20.5bn a year in England. | The prime minister also said she wanted to showcase “what we’re doing in technical education to improve opportunities for young people”, and “a sustainable 10-year plan from the NHS to deliver better outcomes for patients” after she agreed to boost its finances by £20.5bn a year in England. |
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