The Tory party is in a furious mood following Theresa May’s conference speech. MPs are swearing, ranting, and muttering dire threats about the object of their anger. Helpfully for the Prime Minister, though, the bulk of the anger has little to do with her and everything to do with the two men MPs suspect are trying to destabilise her: Grant Shapps and Boris Johnson.
After extensive conversations with MPs from across the intakes, senior backbenchers and Cabinet Ministers, the Spectator understands that these two men will find it far more difficult to walk back into Parliament when it returns on Monday than the Prime Minister will. She was the one who gave a speech which fell apart, but the attempts by the Foreign Secretary and the former Party Chairman to undermine their leader seem to have fallen apart, too.
Shapps was outed by the Tory whips overnight as the chief agitator against the Prime Minister.
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