As Isabel reports, after a week of briefing and backstabbing among the Cabinet, there is a growing feeling from Conservatives that Theresa May needs to stamp what little authority she has left on her party. In this vein, May is expected to tell ministers to keep a lid on it at tomorrow’s Cabinet meeting. But should that fail, the 1922 committee executive has written to May saying that backbenchers will support her if she needs to sack feuding ministers by way of example – in order to get things back on track.
But even if May were to decide this was the best route forward, it’s a plan that could prove too risky to execute. In the immediate reshuffle after the disastrous election result, May was too weak to fire any of the people she had planned to had she an increased majority. So, who can the Prime Minister actually sack?
To trigger a vote of confidence, just forty-eight Conservative MPs (15pc of the party) need to write to the 1922 chairman backing a no confidence vote in Theresa May.
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