Theresa May is to face her MPs at the 1922 Committee tomorrow, it has been confirmed. There had been calls for the Prime Minister to do so, after feverish speculation that Tory MPs were plotting to remove her because of her disappointing Brexit performance. She has clearly decided to take on those critics and face her party, rather than hide and hope that this is all going to go away.
One of the reasons MPs are increasingly dissatisfied with the Prime Minister is that she isn’t offering any sense of progress towards a deal, and there will again be demands for her to show that she will win a concession from Brussels and secure a deal. It is unlikely that she will offer much more than her attempts at reassurances in the Commons yesterday, where she told MPs that 95 per cent of the negotiations were complete. This may infuriate the people who have been agitating against her, but will it be enough to calm wavering backbenchers for a little longer?
Reports have swirled Westminster today that the threshold of 48 letters calling for a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister has either been reached or will be reached very shortly indeed.
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