>The executive has the power to scrap a rule that gives the prime minister 12 months’ grace after a confidence vote before MPs can again vote on his future.
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>But a source close to the prime minister today warned that they should think twice before taking that step because of the danger it would inhibit future leaders of the party from taking difficult but necessary decisions.
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>“If the rules were changed, every leader forever more would have a gun to their head,” the source said.
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>“They would never be able to get on with anything because they would be constantly beholden to the whims of MPs.”
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>([🪞](https://archive.ph/WC02t))
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from iNews:
>Theresa May’s confidence vote win in 2018 drew the support of 200 MPs – about 63 per cent of her MPs. But the result exposed a major rift within the party and she resigned as Prime Minister several months later.
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>She was told that if she did not resign, the party’s 1922 Committee of backbenchers would change its rules to force another confidence vote.
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>([*iNews: Theresa May secured a bigger victory than Boris Johnson – his loyalists were first to demand her exit*](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-cabinet-loyalists-theresa-may-resign-confidence-vote-1673131))
and the Mirror:
>It is understood that even if attempts to change Tory rules fail, Mr Johnson could still get a visit from the ‘men in grey suits’ if he loses the support of backbenchers.
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>Theresa May is understood to have had such a visit from backbench chiefs shortly before she resigned in 2019.
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>She won her confidence vote in December 2018 but the mood of the party darkened again when she failed to get her Brexit deal through the Commons.
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>([*Mirror: Boris Johnson’s allies try to block Tory rebel bid for new confidence vote*](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-allies-try-block-27369913) – ([🪞](https://archive.ph/J64T9)))
Look, we’d all like to be the one to shoot boris, but that doesn’t mean we should be discouraging people just because they got a chance before us
I think he did it to himself, by being him.
Yes. Put it against his groin before he spawns again.
All of these theatrics because not one Cabinet Minister has the bravery to resign and declare the Johnson government over. That’s what usually ought to happen.
So what I’m saying is that if you want Johnson gone, strange is it may sound, your best bet is to send Liz Truss some money for her leadership campaign. She’s *really* obviously building one and presumably once the war chest is full enough she’ll come out to challenge Johnson.
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>The executive has the power to scrap a rule that gives the prime minister 12 months’ grace after a confidence vote before MPs can again vote on his future.
>
>But a source close to the prime minister today warned that they should think twice before taking that step because of the danger it would inhibit future leaders of the party from taking difficult but necessary decisions.
>
>“If the rules were changed, every leader forever more would have a gun to their head,” the source said.
>
>“They would never be able to get on with anything because they would be constantly beholden to the whims of MPs.”
>
>([🪞](https://archive.ph/WC02t))
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from iNews:
>Theresa May’s confidence vote win in 2018 drew the support of 200 MPs – about 63 per cent of her MPs. But the result exposed a major rift within the party and she resigned as Prime Minister several months later.
>
>She was told that if she did not resign, the party’s 1922 Committee of backbenchers would change its rules to force another confidence vote.
>
>([*iNews: Theresa May secured a bigger victory than Boris Johnson – his loyalists were first to demand her exit*](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-cabinet-loyalists-theresa-may-resign-confidence-vote-1673131))
and the Mirror:
>It is understood that even if attempts to change Tory rules fail, Mr Johnson could still get a visit from the ‘men in grey suits’ if he loses the support of backbenchers.
>
>Theresa May is understood to have had such a visit from backbench chiefs shortly before she resigned in 2019.
>
>She won her confidence vote in December 2018 but the mood of the party darkened again when she failed to get her Brexit deal through the Commons.
>
>([*Mirror: Boris Johnson’s allies try to block Tory rebel bid for new confidence vote*](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-allies-try-block-27369913) – ([🪞](https://archive.ph/J64T9)))
Look, we’d all like to be the one to shoot boris, but that doesn’t mean we should be discouraging people just because they got a chance before us
I think he did it to himself, by being him.
Yes. Put it against his groin before he spawns again.
All of these theatrics because not one Cabinet Minister has the bravery to resign and declare the Johnson government over. That’s what usually ought to happen.
So what I’m saying is that if you want Johnson gone, strange is it may sound, your best bet is to send Liz Truss some money for her leadership campaign. She’s *really* obviously building one and presumably once the war chest is full enough she’ll come out to challenge Johnson.
Cos it won’t hit anything vital?