Tory 1922 Committee considers rule change

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"Tory 1922 Committee considers rule change to allow no confidence vote after local elections

Amid fears of severe losses of council seats in May, many backbenchers believe Rishi Sunak could face a challenge

The 1922 Committee will consider a rule change to allow a no confidence vote in Rishi Sunak if the party suffers a major blow in the local elections, The Telegraph understands.

There is growing frustration on the Tory back benches about Labour’s lead in opinion polls, as well as the Government's failure to crack down on Channel crossings.

Conservative MPs are refraining from launching overt attacks on the Prime Minister ahead of the May elections, so as not to undermine campaigning efforts of their local councillors and activists.

But several backbenchers have told this newspaper that if the party does badly in the May elections ( ), they will be ready to go public with their criticism.

Some have even predicted that a severe defeat for the party in local elections will lead to calls for a return of Boris Johnson.

“We need to get our policies right and give people a reason to vote Conservative,” one MP said.

“It's been 100 days, the challenge is what happens at the May elections. Obviously if it's a total disaster, then I think people who like Boris will call for him to come back - locally lots of people come up to me and say ‘when is Boris coming back?’”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...no-confidence/

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P.S. Bring Back Boris!!!

[malvolio]

You have to say that, considering what happened since, sacking Boris was probably not the Tories' smartest move. Boris is about hte only tory who appeals to the average voter.

Might not happen though. Too many self important nobodies on the back benches will cause the usual chaos and the Tories will slide even further behind.

[jamesbrown]

Boris is a clownshoe and the polling shows that he’d make the Tories even less electable (even before the Partygate hearings begin). The Tories being solidly behind is baked in now, no one can save ‘em (other than circumstance, such as a booming economy, massively reduced NHS waiting lists etc., which all seems rather improbable).

[malvolio]

Boris is a clownshoe and the polling shows that he’d make the Tories even less electable (even before the Partygate hearings begin). The Tories being solidly behind is baked in now, no one can save ‘em (other than circumstance, such as a booming economy, massively reduced NHS waiting lists etc., which all seems rather improbable).

Love to know which polling you've been reading. The last one I saw said he was most likely to retain a chunk of the crucial Red Wall votes.

He's not a good PM, he is a very good party representative where it matters.

[jamesbrown]

Love to know which polling you've been reading. The last one I saw said he was most likely to retain a chunk of the crucial Red Wall votes.

He's not a good PM, he is a very good party representative where it matters.

What your analysis is missing is that Sunak does much better in the Blue Wall seats and Johnson's advantage in the Red Wall is small, shrinking and doesn't translate into seats when compared to Starmer. Starmer is going to recover the Red Wall and a Johnson return would extend that to the Blue Wall. The marginal preference for Johnson vs. Sunak in the Red Wall is a meaningless sideshow in terms of seats gained/lost when put up against Starmer.

And I say that preferring Johnson to Sunak, even though the former is a cosmic scale cretin.

[malvolio]

What your analysis is missing is that Sunak does much better in the Blue Wall seats and Johnson's advantage in the Red Wall is small, shrinking and doesn't translate into seats when compared to Starmer. Starmer is going to recover the Red Wall and a Johnson return would extend that to the Blue Wall. The marginal preference for Johnson vs. Sunak in the Red Wall is a meaningless sideshow in terms of seats gained/lost when put up against Starmer.

Well yes, that is a fair analysis.

And I say that preferring Johnson to Sunak, even though the former is a cosmic scale cretin.

The risk is that the Tories who don't like Sunak but detest Starmer will go Lib Dem or anyone-but-Labour instead. End result will be the same of course.

And that presupposes that Sunak will survive May's local election time. That is by no means certain!

[vetran]

And I say that preferring Johnson to Sunak, even though the former is a cosmic scale cretin.

Oxford educated man who wrote for and edited some of the largest and most influential newspapers in the UK, wrote multiple successful books, then became London Mayor he followed through by becoming prime minister is now condemned as a cretin by some nonentity on an obscure forum - that must sting. Is that you Dubya?

Bojo is many things but no cretin.

[sadkingbilly]

some nonentity on an obscure forum .

nice to see you appreciate your real status

[jamesbrown]

The risk is that the Tories who don't like Sunak but detest Starmer will go Lib Dem or anyone-but-Labour instead. End result will be the same of course.

And that presupposes that Sunak will survive May's local election time. That is by no means certain!

On balance, I'd be happy to see Johnson back because the clownshoe is great for depressing Sterling. But it's a close call as someone who doesn't fundamentally hate the UK