There is no mechanism for a formal challenge to the Prime Minister's leadership so soon after being handed the role, but the Conservative party's grandees could change its rules at any time
: “He will have letters piling up against the back of his door. He will be pushing the door open with a few people, because of all the letters piling up the back of it.”
But Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, treasurer of the 1922 Committee, insisted that a vote could be held if the committee’s officers believed there wasAnother party source suggested that the executive of the committee could stage its own vote of no confidence in Ms Truss, and if it declares that it no longer supports her Sir Graham could confront the Prime Minister and advise that she step down.
Three out of the last five Conservative leaders have faced a formal confidence vote after the trigger point of 15 per cent of the parliamentary party – currently 54 letters – was reached. Iain Duncan Smith is the only leader to have lost a formal vote of his colleagues.
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