The fall of the Tory party

Election needed for leadership election elector... Is there anyone left?

The final timeline must be agreed by the remaining 121 Conservative MPs, with the hope of electing a new chair of the backbench 1922 Committee within days. The two remaining members of the committee, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown and Bob Blackman, will stand for chair.

“One of the problems is that we literally don’t have a committee because all but two of them lost their seats – the two people tipped for chairman were Eddie Hughes and Mark Spencer and they lost their seats,” one senior Tory said. “So at the moment we can’t even start to put a plan in place.”