Andrea Leadsom ‘may lose Cabinet role after slamming Theresa May’s Brexit speech’
Andrea Leadsom could be axed from the Cabinet, it has been claimed
Mrs Leadsom is said to have left Cabinet colleagues stunned after she made remarks during a two-hour meeting to discuss the Prime Minister’s Florence speech last month.
Two members at the meeting have reportedly claimed that Mrs Leadsom bashed Mrs May’s “soft” approach to Brexit and dropped the Cabinet protocol of referring to her as “Prime Minister”.
One said: “Her interventions were extraordinary.
"She said: ‘Parts of the speech are disastrous, Theresa’, before laying into it.
"Everyone was stunned – you just do not talk like that in Cabinet.”