Grant Shapps’ bid to stir up a rebellion against Theresa May has almost certainly failed. Instead, his decision to publicly call on the PM to go has shown that even after the Tories’ lacklustre conference May still retains a wide degree of support among the party’s MPs. Here is the full list of Conservative MPs, showing who has thrown their weight behind the PM, who hasn’t and who thinks it’s time for May to go:
MPs who have publicly backed Theresa May:
Michael Gove, Damian Green, Amber Rudd, Philip Hammond, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, Patrick McLoughlin, Priti Patel, David Gauke, Brandon Lewis, David Mundell, Chris Grayling, Elizabeth Truss, Andrea Leadsom, Damian Hinds, Justine Greening, David Lidington, Nigel Evans, Liam Fox, Greg Clark, Michael Fallon, Boris Johnson, Greg Hands, Vicky Ford, Jeremy Wright, Steve Baker, James Brokenshire, David Davis, Karen Bradley, Alun Cairns, Margot James, Charles Walker, Michael Fabricant, Marcus Jones, Nadhim Zahawi, Kevin Hollinrake, Gavin Williamson, Lucy Allan, Maria Caulfield, Johnny Mercer, Mark Pritchard, Andrew Rosindell, Alex Chalk, Kit Malthouse, Bob Neill, James Cleverly, Nick Boles, Edward Leigh, Desmond Swayne, Andrew Murrison, James Heappey, Thérèse Coffey, Eddie Hughes, Daniel Kawczynski, Jesse Norman,Nadine Dorries, Crispin Blunt, Sir Nicholas Soames, John Redwood, Philip Dunne, Mims Davies, Pauline Latham, Daniel Poulter, Mike Wood, Craig Tracey,Robert Buckland, Conor Burns, Alistair Burt, Simon Clarke, Leo Docherty, Jackie Doyle-Price, Suella Fernandes, Stephen Kerr, Craig Mackinlay, Wendy Morton, Neil O’Brien, Alok Sharma, Julian Smith, Iain Stewart,Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Huw Merriman, Jacob Rees-Mogg, David Davies, Glyn Davies, Owen Paterson, Andrew Jones, John Glen, James Morris; Bim Afolami; Sarah Newton, Lee Rowley, Rachel Maclean, Sarah Wollaston
Those who want May gone:
Grant Shapps, Ed Vaizey, James Duddridge
Yet to say – but likely to be loyal to the PM:
Tim Loughton, Kemi Badenoch, Graham Brady, Robert Syms, Iain Duncan Smith, Sarah Wollaston, Stephen Crabb, Stuart Andrew, Heidi Allen, Edward Argar, Victoria Atkins, Richard Bacon, Harriet Baldwin, Steve Barclay, Guto Bebb, Richard Benyon, Sir Paul Beresford, Steve Brine, Robert Buckland, James Cartlidge, Rehman Chishti, Jo Churchill, Ken Clarke, Damian Collins, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Tracey Crouch, Caroline Dinenage, Jonathan Djanogly, Oliver Dowden, Tobias Ellwood, Michael Ellis, Charlie Elphicke, David Evennett, Kevin Foster, Mark Francois, Lucy Frazer, George Freeman, Mike Freer, Mark Garnier, Sir Roger Gale, Nusrat Ghani, Nick Gibb, Robert Goodwill, Richard Graham, Helen Grant, Dominic Grieve, Andrew Griffiths, Sam Gyimah, Robert Halfon, Luke Hall, Stephen Hammond, Matt Hancock, Richard Harrington, Oliver Heald, Peter Heaton-Jones, Simon Hoare, George Hollingbery, John Howell, Nigel Huddleston, Nick Hurd, Robert Jenrick, Gareth Johnson, Jo Johnson, David Jones, Julian Knight, Kwasi Kwarteng, Andrew Mitchell, Mark Lancaster, Phillip Lee, Alan Mak, Stephen Metcalfe, Maria Miller, David Morris, Caroline Nokes, Guy Opperman, Mark Pawsey, Mike Penning, Andrew Percy, Claire Perry, Chris Philp, Victoria Prentis, Mark Prisk, Will...
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