There is an operation in progress by Tory Brexiters to persuade fellow backbenchers to write to Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 backbench committee, calling for a vote of no confidence in Theresa May as leader of their party.
This is what one of them told me:
‘I’m campaigning myself. We need 60-70 letters, not 48… I know people who are putting letters in today. I think we are the closest ever to her going and I think, thank God, this could be it.’
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The reference to 48 letters is the threshold for triggering the vote. But this MP wants a comfortable margin above that, so that the PM can see that a sizeable number of her colleagues want her to go.
This is not an exquisitely centralised and coordinated campaign against her.
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