If the YouGov polling of CON members is true then the get together is about to decide on as chief somebody who just isn’t the primary selection of Tory MPs.
It is going to be recalled that in July Liz Truss got here third within the first, second, third, and fourth rounds of MP voting. Even within the last MP spherical to decide on the 2 names to go to the membership she obtained simply 31.8% of the Tory MPs voting for her. This was simply sufficient to get her onto the membership poll.
What is sort of clear is that she has an issue along with her lack of help from Tory MPs which could not be a problem offered she is seen to be doing nicely within the struggle towards Starmer’s Labour. However it might an issue if she finds herself in tough water.
For one of many oddities of the Tory system is that whereas the last word energy to determine the management is with the membership the Parliamentary get together is ready to oust the chief. PBers, little question, are absolutely conscious of how a confidence poll will be triggered if sufficient MPs ship letters to the chairman of the 1922 Committee requesting a confidence vote.
One factor that probably might trigger Truss complications is that Boris Johnson appears set to stay an MP and little question would contest a future contest.
Mike Smithson
