Leadership contest triggered!

She will get more than 158 votes so not sure what this would achieve tbh. In fact it'd strengthen her position?


I'd imagine she will receive around 220 votes, cast your bets

i would have to disagree with that number, i have it much closer than that. Strengthen her position? She's toast imo, in fact the best thing she could do, even if she won the vote would be to resign. Just like Thatcher did

£5 EW on Boris for me

it has to be a 'remainer' Surely? So if it isn't Bojo then it may well be Raab

What price Javid?

Does she want best of 3 in this vote of no confidence?

Just in case she loses the first?

n/o

my god the womans robotic! Someone take the duracell out

She's giving her speech and has come out swinging, there's nothing she's said or done during her tenure to suggest she would resign regardless of the margin of victory, even 1 vote. I don't see where the 158 would come from, seems way off.

that 'speech' she just gave May ell have cost her another 30 votes tonight. That was pathetic!

i hope she wins 52 v 48 and that the erg then respect the will of the people (tory MPs) 

It she loses the first vote she still wont resign

They will have to literally drag her out in a strait jacket

The media calling her a "strong woman" is way way way off

She' ignorant, stubborn and classless, any man in this position would have journalists demanding they resign

Being done on purpose, and this vote they might even win against her makes sod all difference

And it buys her more time, something nasty might well happen here, to many people are sick to death of all this

that was the 'speech' of a dead woman walking

As long as Phillip has time to make sure his financial affair are in order she'll be happy

have the turkeys finally voted for xmas ?

Philips finances were probably sorted the minute the nutcase came up with "Chequers" Denzil

She led them to disaster in a general election campaign.That will not be forgotten in this vote.Imo she will pay the price for that.

Cabinet cancelled!

If they win then Boris imo

With JRM as his right hand man, bring back esther as well, put her on the left side

Javid and Khan can be in there as well

As for Gove

Stick him on the chimney

i would think McVey is a certainty for some role; especially if she runs?

Esther would get my vote but can see it being Boris IF they win the vote tonight 

Bring in Priti Patel as well

But lets be honest May wont resign regardless

hectoratoratora; yes some people seem to forgetting that. The woman has been an absolute disaster for her own party and this country. If the tories back her in any way shape or form tonight, then we all may as well leave the ship

Thatcher was a stoic, hard, determined, singular PM, and she resigned after winning a no confidence vote. The nutcase is none of those things, she's just plain nuts! So who knows what she will do. You would hope some normally pathetic coward who is close to her would give her the right advice. But going on what she's been advised recently, that's a non-starter

it seems Peston has similar feelings as mine on that annus horribilis speech

Robert Peston
@Peston


.@theresa_may wants to be seen as the personification of Brexit. She is saying back me or risk seeing no Brexit. As I said earlier this risks uniting Brexiters and Remainers against her.

that just about sums the tories up at the moment. Andrew Bridgen walks off set on the BBC and won't engage with James Cleverly. Divisions divisions divisions

She should speak to Corbyn.He survived TWO votes of no confidence!

1/3 to remain....Money for Jam

Simples. A Conservative gives up their safe seat and Farage gets elected. Farage then becomes leader and PM all before March and then tells Europe to feck off.

It’s all Greek to me

Robert Lepton's coat-manufacturer's label proudly on display during his ITN Lunchtime News interview.

Let's all hope he's on a richly-deserved earner for that  product placement.

Isn't it that the conservatives don't want her to run as PM at the next GE after the last FU.

If she offers her resignation before then, she surely won't lose this vote.

If she doesn't offer her resignation, it'll be a close run vote.

May to win confidence vote 1/8  to lose 9/2

If May cannot count on her own party to carry her Brexit deal through Parliament

Then what is the point of her party continuing to back her as leader????????????

This seems a contradiction to me

Back her or lose her

at the moment there are 30 odd tories who i hope get serious heartburn tonight. She was always going to get her own payrolls votes

Statsman; she May well have given them a 'promise' of a date she will go

The DUP should stand up now but won't because they want Labour to

May will easily win, then she will get the brino deal voted through by the remainers and disappear like Cameron.

outside committee room 14 (where the nutcase is begging for her job) one former 'loyal' cabinet minister when questioned about proceedings replied "The only thing i am 100% certain of is that many of my colleagues are liars" Just about sums it up

All this has gone on for to long, should have gone after the GE

She's going to get this through and disappear into that good night

We need an uprise its that simple

the nutcase has just admitted that "She will not stand at the next GE" What a way to get a few weeks more in your pit

The problem is we a hung parliament

However if the Tories continue to back May they at least must ALL support her DEAL she has with the EU to leave

Otherwise they must have another leader they can get behind


I not blaming May myself at the moment

May will also need support of some other parties to get her DEAL through..

So Tories must ALSO consider this...will she get them?


Or do they need another leader who can do tis?

now i know politics can change very very quickly, but if she gets her baby through, i will retire from political commentating. I will also kiss my wife constantly on the mouth for 365 consecutive days without her cleaning her teeth

rumours of only 86 votes against

The REAL issue still remains getting a vote though parliament to enable us the leave the EU deal or no deal.

If the Tories cannot do this

We will need a General Election, perhaps give Corbyn a try?

The problem of kissing a wife with bad breath, I leave entirely to you Baphornet

i told her just before what i promised and she said, "When does it start"