I wrote this morning about how the 21 expelled rebel Tory MPs had blocked a parliamentary coup planned for today, when opposition parties had wanted to use Standing Order 24 to give them the power at any time before 31 October to reinforce the Benn Act and prevent...
Boris Johnson forcing through a no-deal Brexit at the end of this month. I've subsequently been contacted by former members of the 21 insisting that they are no longer members of the 21, that they would have backed the coup, and that there is now a clear split between...
"Brexit wets", who harbour a residual hope that Boris Johnson will welcome them back into the party in the coming weeks, and a breakaway group of anti-Johnson ultras who are set on running in the coming election as independents or have decided to leave politics. So...
let's have no more than of the rebel 21. By my calculation it's now 15 Brexit wets and 6 anti-Johnson ultras.
