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Saturday 7 OctOber 2017
UK’s May finds support after lawmakers plot to oust her

needed to trigger a formal to May.
leadership challenge un- Shapps told Sky News that
der party rules, but the plot May is “a very decent
further rattles May’s shaky woman” but without a new
grip on power. leader the Conservatives
May became prime minis- “may be in a holding pat-
ter through a Conservative tern which may be an ev-
leadership contest when er-descending one.”
former Prime Minister David But senior Cabinet col-
Cameron resigned in the leagues declared their
wake of Britain’s June 2016 support for May, saying she
vote to leave the European must stay in office to steer
Union. the country through Brexit,
Since then she has strug- which sees Britain leave the
gled to unite a govern- EU in March 2019.
ment that is divided over Environment Secretary Mi-
how the country should chael Gove, a prominent
leave the EU and what re- Brexit campaigner, said Fri-
lationship it wants with the day that May had “shown
bloc after Brexit. tremendous grace and grit
May was further weak- in the course of this week.”
ened when she called a “I think Theresa’s doing
snap election that saw the a great job,” he told Sky
Conservatives reduced News.
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for charity coffee event in Reading, England, where to a minority government. Other Conservatives took
she responded to claims of a plot involving Conservative Party Members of Parliament to oust her A speech designed to re- to Twitter to back their
from Number 10, saying she is providing “calm leadership” with the “full support” of her cabinet invigorate the party de- leader.
Friday Oct. 6, 2017.
(Yui Mok/PA via AP) scended into disaster this Lawmaker Nadhim Za-
week as May was inter- hawi tweeted that he had
Associated Press lenge to the leadership the full support of my Cabi- rupted by a prankster and been “inundated with
LONDON (AP) — Belea- of May, who gambled net,” May declared Friday. almost silenced by a sore message(s) of support” for
guered British Prime Minister away her party’s majority While many colleagues throat. As she finally neared May and Shapps had “mis-
Theresa May insisted Friday in Parliament by calling a declared their support for her conclusion, letters be- judged the mood of the
that she is in firm control of snap June election, then May, Grant Shapps, a for- gan dropping off the slo- party.”
her Conservative govern- slogged through a mishap- mer Conservative party gan behind her. Legislator James Clever-
ment, after a party law- marred speech to party chairman, said “a growing In recent weeks Foreign ley posted on Twitter that
maker said he had a list of members earlier this week. number of people feel it’s Secretary Boris Johnson has Shapps “is doing himself,
30 colleagues who want “What the country needs is time to make a change.” gone public with his own the party, and (most im-
her to resign. calm leadership, and that’s The number of rebels falls plans for Brexit, a move portantly) the country no
It was the latest chal- what I am providing with short of the 48 lawmakers widely seen as a challenge favours at all. Just stop.”q
France’s Macron finds label sticks: ‘president of the rich’

By SYLVIE CORBET pro-business platform,
Associated Press doesn’t hide his economic
PARIS (AP) — policies aim at attracting
French President Emman- more wealthy French and
uel Macron is increasingly foreign investors into the
being portrayed as the country.
“president of the rich” — “Who are the people who
an unpopular epithet in a invest? People who are
country where bragging ready to take risks and who
about money is taboo and are going to win when suc-
equality is a national mot- cess rewards these risks”,
to. he said Tuesday during a
After scrapping a wealth visit to a factory in northern
tax and reaching out to France.
big investors, his popularity The move comes after the
is flagging, and he made government announced a
matters worse for himself series of unpopular mea-
with a vulgar reference to sures this summer, starting
soon-to-be-jobless workers. with a decrease in housing
The super tax applied to aid for all students.
people with more than 1.3 Last month, Macron for-
million euros ($1.5 million) mally signed labor reforms
in assets is to be replaced that have prompted dem-
next year by a tax on real French President Emmanuel Macron, left, looks on as he stands alongside Minister of Employment onstrations because they
estate. The measure, soon Muriel Penicaud, center, and Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer during a visit at the are perceived by many as
to be discussed at parlia- School of Application to the Trades of Public Works (EATP), which is devoted to apprenticeship weakening France’s hard-
ment, prompted heat- and vocational training, in Egletons, central France, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. won worker protection
ed debates about why (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP) rights, and thousands of re-
yachts, racing horses and Finance minister Bruno Le signs of wealth. “Then why over,” he said on RTL radio tirees walked on the streets
luxury cars should not be Maire warned how com- not tax jewelry, furs and this week. to protest against a tax
taxed more. plex it would be to tax all wine cellars? ... It’s never Macron, elected on a hike on their pensions. q