'We only need a couple more letters and the PM will be gone.' Those were the words of ex-Cabinet Minister Simon Clarke in recent days as he urged Tory MPs to submit letters of no confidence.
'We only need a couple more letters and the PM will be gone.' Those were the words of former Cabinet Minister Simon Clarke in recent days as he urged disenchanted Tory MPs to submit letters of no confidence in the Prime Minister – with the aim of triggering yet another internecine party leadership contest.
As Mr Sunak's small band of allies scan the battlefield, they see, on one flank, Cummings and the mysterious Tory fixer Dougie Smith, backed by the so-called 'pasta plotters' who were part of former home secretary Suella Braverman's camp. Then, a few days later, Security Minister Tom Tugendhat – another One Nation former leadership contender – was also proposed as a 'unity candidate'. A Tory source said: 'Tom doesn't want it. It was put about by Dougie to distract attention from his preferred candidate, Kemi Badenoch.'
READ MORE: DAN HODGES - Rishi may want to cling on, but he sits in No10 not as a Prime Minister, but as a squatter Advertisement Tory MPs are divided between those who think that Sunak should, in the words of one, 'die with dignity' by leading the party to inevitable defeat soon, and those who, assuming that the PM will hold on until October, argue that there is time for one last spin of the leadership wheel.
Ms Mordaunt would be welcomed by voters in many constituencies as 'passionate and energetic', MPs said, while Cleverly is seen as 'genial'. Patel and Badenoch are regarded as the most likely to 'energise the party faithful', with Patel increasingly emerging as a 'credible dark horse' candidate. 'She is not as divisive as Suella. She is also much nicer to colleagues than Suella or Kemi, not as standoffish,' one MP said.
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