The Chairman of the 1922 Committee announces that the vote of confidence will occur this evening.
Jesse Norman is the latest to declare that he has no confidence in the Prime Minister.
The Tories would lose lots of seats. He could lose his own seat. It would win him no loyalty or security. It would not deliver better government.
The former Policy Unit head isn’t the institutional Treasury’s greatest fan, and it will watch this appointment closely.
The Party Chairman responsible for fund-raising is playing for higher stakes than he may appreciate.
A decision is expected when the Executive committee meets this week, and the poll itself is due to take place after June 21.
Should he be handcuffed under public restraint, like a suspect watched by Priti Patel? Or freed to run wild through Alpine meadows, like Julie Andrews?
O’Brien has arrived to find the MP for Havant already in place, who though not a former think tank head is no policy slouch.
Finding a new Chief of Staff is only the start of the changes that Johnson needs to make his government work.
Our latest survey finds that nine in ten Party members support such a move – a total that this latest news is unlikely to have reduced.
It’s important to have advisers, but “advisers advise and Ministers decide” – because the latter are accountable to the rest of us.
The Brady amendment is part of the developing story of a clash between leaders and backbenchers over Party management, culture and MPs’ status.
The Chairman of the 1922 Committee’s Executive is an enemy of rule by decree and a stern upholder of parliamentary scrutiny
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.