The U.K. Conservative Party will suffer a split if May pursues her Brexit plan – former minister

The U.K. Conservative party will suffer a “catastrophic split” if Theresa May pursues her Brexit plan, according to a former minister who said as many as 80 of her MPs are set to reject it.

Steve Baker, who quit as a junior Brexit minister following the agreement on the plan by the Cabinet at the prime minister’s Chequers country residence, told the Press Association that he expected a show-down at the party’s conference, which begins later this month.