The Guardian view on a Tory Brexit: irreconcilable differences | Editorial

A divided party will be unable to guide this country out of the European Union. What then?Few prime ministers have taken the pummelling that Theresa May has endured, especially since she published her blueprint for Britain’s relationship with the EU in July. The Chequers plan, as it was known, was pronounced dead by the EU two months later in Salzburg. Mrs May was then sent back to rework her proposals, a humiliation in the eyes of her party that she has not lived down. Since then, the pri