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  Courtesy of the Telegraph - love the Tortoise reference.
  
  
  
  Theresa May's leadership is being openly questioned by MPs on all sides of her party amid accusations that the Conservatives are "letting the country down". The Prime Minister yesterday faced criticism over both her Brexit strategy and domestic agenda, with one MP calling for "less policy-making by tortoise and [more] policy making by lion". Six senior Eurosceptic Tories raised concerns over the Government's approach to Brexit amid mounting calls for the Prime Minister to sack Philip Hammond. Around 40 Tory MPs are said to have submitted letters of no-confidence in Mrs May, just short of the number required to trigger a leadership contest.
  
  It comes after Mr Hammond triggered a furious backlash from eurosceptic Tory MPs and back-benchers by saying that there will be "very modest" changes to the UK's relationship with the EU after Brexit. Nadine Dorries accused Mr Hammond of disloyalty over after he appeared to back calls by business leaders for a soft-Brexit during a speech in Davos last week. “He needs to go. He needs to have the PM’s back and he doesn’t,” Ms Dorries told ITV's Peston on Sunday. “He's not being loyal to the Prime Minister." On Friday Owen Paterson, a former Cabinet minister, said that the Prime Minister must "absolutely put her foot down" after the Chancellor's intervention.
  
  Over the weekend it emerged that Marcus Fysh, the Tory MP for Yeovil, told fellow MPs on a Whatsapp group: "I think we should insist on Hammond’s resignation. It is absurd he is still in post. He has done nothing to prepare the country for a decent negotiation.”

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