The Chairman of the 1922 Committee announces that the vote of confidence will occur this evening.
I just can’t feel comfortable with these proposals – let alone summon the will to go out and try to convince voters of them.
Most of the action has been over Covid-related divisions. And most of the dissenters are from older intakes.
I believe I am the right person to deliver a renewed Committee that can serve the best interests of voters up and down the country.
The tellers for the Noes were Christopher Chope and Chris Green. The last major Tory rebellion against Government Covid policy was 53 strong.
They’re facing mass unemployment and freezes on their wages. The Government must do its utmost to change the situation.
Labour has increased the Council Tax, doubled the number of senior officials, and seen Children’s Services go from “outstanding“ to being placed in special measures.
Both men sit broadly on the centre-right of the Parliamentary Party. That there is no candidate from the centre-left is a sign of internal change.
“The trouble is, that the Government has never tabled any substantial legal changes to the Backstop.”
“The Prime Ministers will address colleagues at the 1922 Committee meeting at 17.00 and immediately after that meeting a ballot will be held between six and eight.”
“I’m not saying that there would be an organised push, but the letters would just go in to Graham Brady,” one senior pro-Leave backbencher told this site yesterday.
Sir Graham Brady, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Dame Cheryl Gillan, and Sir Chris Chope gain well deserved recognition.
The twenty-third article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.