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Theresa May admits 'I got us into this mess' in meeting with Tory MPs Theresa May admits 'I got us into this mess' in meeting with Tory MPs
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Theresa May has admitted responsibility for the Conservative Party’s disastrous election result, telling a meeting of backbench MPs: "I got us into this mess, and I'm going get us out." Theresa May has admitted responsibility for the Conservative Party’s disastrous election result, telling her backbench MPs: "I got us into this mess, and I'm going get us out."
The Prime Minister’s comments came during a gathering of the 1922 Committee in Westminster.  The Prime Minister’s comments came during a meeting with Conservative MPs, the first time she has faced them since squandering her party's majority in the House of Commons.
Ms May was greeted to the meeting with around 25 seconds of table-banging and brief cheers, a reception described by those who witnessed it as much less warm than that which she received last July when she became PM. She also signalled that she may have to re-calibrate her approach to Brexit, telling MPs that she would listen to "all voices" in the party on the issue.
Backbenchers reported that Ms May was given a far colder reception than when she first took control of the party last year, but said she had been "contrite" following her catastrophic election gamble.
The meeting of the Conservative 1922 Committee, which is meant to speak for backbenchers in the party, was brought forward a day as Ms May urgently tried to shore up her vulnerable position amid talk of a potential coup.    
The Prime Minister said to her livid MPs that she would only stay as leader "as long as you want me", but indicated a clear intention to stay on in Downing Street with her pledge to get the party out of the "mess" her premiership has left it in.
But she also paved the way for changes in her approach to Brexit, which has riled many who want to see her striking a more collaborative tone.  
Pushed on her approach to EU withdrawal by a Brexiteer at the meeting, the PM said that is important to "listen to all voices in the party".
Among those MPs who asked questions at the meeting were former leader Iain Duncan Smith and ex-education secretary Nicky Morgan.
One MP at the crowded meeting described the Prime Minister as "contrite and genuine but not on her knees", as Ms May repeatedly apologised for the election result that cost her party its grip on power.
Others reported that the Prime Minister offered reassurances ahead of a meeting with the DUP tomorrow, that any deal she strikes with the Northern Irish unionists will not affect gay rights. 
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