What a difference eight months makes. Back in October, Grant Shapps launched a failed coup against Theresa May after a disastrous Tory conference which saw the Prime Minister cough her way through what was supposed to be a set piece speech. Since then, we’ve had Cabinet feuding, backbench rebellions and a lack of leadership from an increasingly beleaguered Prime Minister.
Yet despite all this, Shapps has had a change of heart and thinks there is now a chance May could lead the party into the next election – and even possibly win it:
‘I think it’s perfectly conceivable now… that she leads us into the next election and I think potentially even wins that election.’
"It's conceivable but not likely that Theresa May will lead us into the next election" says former Conservative Party Chairman @grantshapps who himself launched a coup against the Prime Minister last year pic.twitter.com/o3oEz7Scqn
— Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge (@SkyPoliticsHub) June
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