Latest updates: health secretary says he would not support changing rules to allow a new vote in PM’s leadership within a year
Changing rules to allow new no-confidence vote in PM within 12 months would be ‘grossly unfair’, says JavidToday we’ve got the first PMQs since the no-confidence vote on. PMQs is often seen as a pointless pantomime, but it does function as a test of a leader’s authority with their parliamentary colleagues. Mostly it ends in a “draw” , but sometimes a leader can put in a performance so memorable that it does shift preconceptions, at least a bit.
Johnson said yesterday that he hoped the no-confidence vote would draw a line under the leadership crisis, but it is already obvious that this is not happening. Some Tory MPs are already speculating about the possibility of changing the leadership election rules, which currently say that after winning a no-confidence vote a Conservative leader should not have to face another for another 12 months.
I think most people would think if you changed the rules it would be grossly unfair, it would be the wrong thing to do. So I wouldn’t support that.And if anyone wants to exercise the current rules, which they did, that’s totally their right and I respect my colleagues for that, but the decision has been made.
And I think what everyone wants to now see is that you end this sort of speculation and we just get on with the job.
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