Zzzt. That's the sound of our democracy being shredded by - and for - one Boris Johnson. The latest outrage: a plan by the 1922 committee to change internal party rules so that the Tory leader is automatically safe from a (Tory party) VONC during their first year in office. 😬
But of course if that happens, it shuts down another avenue of escape from no deal, as the Tory party won't be able to use its own processes to bring Boris Johnson down from within, no matter how dire the situation.
Effect of this, if it passes, will be to ratchet the stakes still higher. If Tories can no longer have any confidence (pardon the pun) of bringing down their leader, no matter the circumstances, then what's left?

Well, there's the parliamentary VONC... or surrendering the whip.
Means the last ditch desperation move will be to quit the Tory party, and persuade their colleagues to quit too. If enough do, the Government falls as a matter of practical terms, because it will become literally incapable of governing. But that's an almost impossible ask.
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