MPs backing the Defence Secretary have started to sound out colleagues about whether they would be willing to vote for him to be the next Prime Minister
Mr Blunt insisted that the lack of a formal mechanism for MPs to trigger a no-confidence vote would not be an obstacle. He said: “If there is such a weight of opinion in the parliamentary party that we have to have a change, then it will be effected.”former Chief Whip
, told BBC Radio 4 that “If the Prime Minister is unable to govern she should step down, but added: “We should all help her succeed.” Backbenchers have suggested that the lack of “an obvious candidate” to take over at No 10 could help Ms Truss survive longer. One MP told: “I think Rishi probably is about the best option – but has he fixed the reasons why he didn’t win six weeks ago? If you made me vote I would probably go that way but it is not going to be an easy path to him.
“It’s probably an easier path to Ben Wallace to be honest. It’s hard to know what he thinks: all I can remember him saying is ‘we have got to beat Putin’, 2000 times – which is fair enough.”
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