🚨 Senior Conservative backbencher tells me tonight they are confident of getting to 54 letters tomorrow to try and oust the PM.
“Up the revolution!” they tell me.
No 10 / whips subjecting them to “threats and blackmail” but has only angered MPs further, they say.
“Up the revolution!” they tell me.
No 10 / whips subjecting them to “threats and blackmail” but has only angered MPs further, they say.
“And colleagues are being thrown under the bus” for rebelling they say. “It’s disgusting.”
Parliament hasn’t felt this mutinous since the final days of Theresa May… whose downfall Boris Johnson played a rather large part in.
Parliament hasn’t felt this mutinous since the final days of Theresa May… whose downfall Boris Johnson played a rather large part in.
Important disclaimer: the process of sending in letters is of course secretive. We’ve been here plenty of times before where rebels think they have the numbers, but MPs haven’t actually sent the letters they claim to have sent.
So let’s see what tomorrow brings.
So let’s see what tomorrow brings.
Disclaimer aside, it would be astonishing if Boris Johnson were to face a vote of no confidence barely two years since he won his party an 80 seat majority. It would be some squandering of all that political capital.
When I spoke to one key rebel today they said some were still deciding about letters and it’s possible they continue to give PM the chance to redeem himself via Sue Gray’s report. Things incredibly fractious and difficult to read tonight. But rebels certainly v excitable.
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