Is time up for Theresa May? A report in today’s Sun indicates that it could well be, with the paper suggesting that the chair of the party’s 1922 committee, Graham Brady, has told Tory MPs not to issue any more demands for a leadership challenge. Why does this matter? Because it suggests the threshold for a no confidence vote – 48 letters, or 15 per cent of the party’s MPs – could be approaching.
Tory MPs would be ‘crazy’ to call time on May’s leadership, argues the Sun, which urges them to ‘resist’ making a move against the Prime Minister. It goes without saying that things are hardly going ‘swimmingly’ under May, but for as long as there is no ‘obvious successor’, this is not the time to oust the Prime Minister. The party ‘needs more time’ to formulate a succession plan and pick a candidate who could replace May.
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