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
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