Brexit and religion meet as refusal to back down torments Theresa May

Unwillingness to compromise echoes Britain's Christian past

On Christmas morning, Theresa May will head to church in her district of Maidenhead like she does most Sundays and though she’s reluctant to talk about her Christian faith publicly, it is deeply held. That’s something the U.K. prime minister shares with two of the people most committed to bringing her down.

Together, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Steve Baker run the European Research Group, the most powerful caucus of Conservative members of Parliament. They’ve been an effective double-act pressuring May to adopt a harder stance in divorce talks with the European Union and, while they failed to bring her down this