Theresa May wants to lead the Conservatives into the next general electiion

Good, she's the only real leader we have. We need to unite behind her; any leadership challenges will ultimately fail. I would like to see some certainty during this turbulent time and a bunch of leadership contests and snap elections isn't going to achieve that sense of stability as we leave the EU

Surely this is just party unity PR/fighting talk. She's hardly going to say, 'nah, I'll probably have been back-stabbed by Johnson, Davis and co. before then'.

I will do a Paddy Ashdown and eat my hat if the Tories give her a second go at Corbyn after that campaign.

I can't imagine it happening either. Perhaps if it looks a dead certainty that labour are going to win a landslide no one may want to stand. But I just can't see the Tories just rolling over for a Labour party that is ran by leftists of the party. That terrifies them beyond standard partisan politics. Enough of them would see it as a moral duty to do their damn best to stop Corbyn from winning, for then good of the country.

The other point is no one trusts polling anymore. If the polling heavily favours Labour the Tories will be itching for their own Corbyn to defy the odds and opt for their own maverick like Rees Mog.

2ez4JC

The next general election is a long way away. Until that time, May's government, barely functional with a supply and demand arrangement, will inevitably lose more seats with by-elections. Coming into the election she will appear even weaker than she does now. But that's not going to happen anyway. The only reason she remains PM is because the Tory big beasts are waiting for the opportunity to pounce. Brexit negotiations will continue until mid-2019 and not long after, I think she will be pushed out. The Conservative party have little sense of loyalty; look at how quickly they ousted Margaret Thatcher despite winning three consecutive elections for them!