Tory MPs will plot their party’s response to the election result and any likely coalition partnerships in a meeting next Friday, 8 May at 4pm, Coffee House has learned.
The powerful executive of the 1922 Committee will meet that afternoon in order to prepare their demands for the Prime Minister and discuss any initial outlines of a coalition agreement between the Tories and the Lib Dems that have already been passed on to them. They will be preparing for a meeting of the full party on Monday, where they will set out their demands in full.
We have known for some time what the demands of the Committee will be if the Tories are in a position to form a government. But what has changed in this campaign is Labour hardening its stance towards coalition and suggesting that minority government is what it will seek after the election, rather than a formal partnership with any party.
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