It was hard to imagine back at the beginning of December that in less than a year Prime Minister Boris Johnson could be facing a confidence vote by his own MPs.
Even at the beginning of last week, it was difficult to find anybody who could confidently predict that enough Tory MPs would put in a letter to the backbench 1922 Committee.
But today, Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the committee, said in a statement: “The threshold of 15% of the parliamentary party seeking a vote of confidence in the leader of the Conservative Party has been exceeded.
