May to invite Labour to help create policies amid Tory plot to oust her

[muriel_volestrangler]

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Theresa May will move to bolster her precarious position in Downing Street with an unprecedented invitation to Labour to help her create policies for a post-Brexit Britain as she attempts to quell a Tory plot to replace her.

Speaking on the anniversary of her first week in Downing Street and amid talk of a Conservative bid to oust her before the end of the year, the prime minister will on Monday seek to draw a line under a disastrous election result that saw her government lose its majority.

May will argue that her “commitment to change Britain is undimmed” and echo her speech from outside No 10 a year ago, pledging to tackle injustice and inequality as she launches a report on unfair employment practices by former Labour adviser Matthew Taylor.

The speech, which will be seen as an attempt to relaunch her faltering premiership, will then make an unusual plea for cross-party working, challenging MPs across the spectrum to “come forward with your own views and ideas about how we can tackle these challenges as a country”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/09/may-to-invite-labour-to-help-create-policies-amid-tory-plot-to-oust-her

I can't work out what to make of this - "it's a trap", it's an exaggeration by No. 10 spin-doctors, The Guardian is making a mountain out of a molehill, or is she really so desperate that she's publicly asking for Labour help to save her job?

[Voltaire2]

1. kinda doubt that is going happen.

I hear Jerry singing an old movie show tune:

"Swinging in the wind,
she's swinging in the wind,
...."

[T_i_B]

2. We appear to be in silly season mode right now

A lot of the political articles I come across at the moment are speculative, and often based on little more than rumours. And there's plenty of scope for rumours and speculation in the current climate.

[Denzil_DC]

3. Not heard May's actual speech yet,

but it sounds like this is based on a boilerplate remark of hers that she wants the opposition to come up with solutions rather than sniping and problems - because, as we know, Theresa May has always been respectful and all ears when it comes to input from Corbyn, the SNP, and anybody else from the opposite side of the chamber, and even her own dissident backbenchers.

It could also work as a trap for Labour - "You say you're for Brexit, well how are we going to make that work?" If so, it's a trap of Labour's own making.

[T_i_B]

4. There is another side to the speculation....

....which is that the government will want to send a message to the DUP that they can manage perfectly well without them. Hence the briefing about working with the Lib Dems and now Labour. Would not be surprised if another silly season story came along about the government being willing to work with the SNP quite frankly.

Plus this sort of stuff has an added advantage in that it keeps the different opposition parties sniping at each other when they could be going after the government instead.

[LeftishBrit]

5. I think she may be trying to *look* as though she has a big tent, and welcomes others' ideas...

as she so plainly doesn't, and advisers may have told her that this is making her unpopular.

Also she may be trying to play the other parties off against each other, since a united opposition could easily bring her down.