Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Political Podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast and I'm joined by Jane Forsyth and Katie Walls.

So Theresa May's Hell Week seems to be becoming even more hellish with talk once again of possible leadership challenge.

James, do you think there's much of a real threat

at this point? I don't mean there's a real threat at this point, but there is more a threat than I

think Downing Street would have expected a week ago. I mean, it seems remarkable to think that a

week ago, Theresa May was waking up to the best set of front pages she's had since the general election,

and now her government seems in a proper crisis. Early this evening, the inner

cabinet will meet to discuss the further kind of concessions that Theresa May wants to make to the EU

on the backstop. And then that will go to cabinet, full cabinet next week on Tuesday.

And I think now the expectation in Westminster is that there will be one or two resignations over

that. When there are those cabinet resignations, that will then spark another round of chatter about

whether you're going to see the infamous 48 letters going in calling for a vote in

and confidence in Theresa May. Now, I personally still think that that is unlikely.

But what I think we are seeing happening here is how hard it is going to be for Theresa May

to keep on being Prime Minister after Brexit Day. Because essentially, if you look at the

parameters of a deal, if she passes this deal with significant Labour support, that I think

will probably be the end of her as Tory leader in anything other than the short term. Or if she passed the deal without DUP support, it'll be very, very hard for her to govern

without their support. And lots of Tories might think, well, a new leader might be able to

rebuild relations with the DUP. So I think that the problems are mounting up for her. And as

someone in government said to me today, a kind of grim inevitability, things

that can only get worse. Katie, the DUP somewhat ambushed the Prime Minister yesterday when they

threatened to vote down the budget if she agrees a deal that they don't like. Are they going to

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