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Theresa May is back for the new parliamentary session and her MPs are plotting how much longer she should be there for.

I'm Fraser Nelson and I'm joined by James Rosythe and Katie Bowles to discuss.

So Katie, we've got various plots as to whether it's possible to get rid of Theresa May. Can you tell us

a little bit about them? So the big one today is that the executive of the 1922 Committee

of Conservative Backbenchers are meeting.

And what is up for discussion is well, they want to try and change the rules

so that they can amount to a leadership challenge or a confidence vote against Theresa May.

So that's 18 Tory MPs, a group of them are meeting to discuss basically whether you can change.

Right now, you're not allowed to challenge it again for 12 months, but those rules could

be changed by just 18 MPs.

Yeah.

Currently, she is safe until December, but they could try and change the rules so you can

have a confidence vote much sooner, should enough MPs want one.

And this could then be put to, I think a rule change could then be put to a vote

amongst Tory MPs rather than just the committee if they wanted to have a bit of cover for that.

All right. And James, if they were to upend this, it'd be quite a big deal. Could they do this

without wider permission from the party? And do you think Theresa May would resign if they got

permission to change the

rules because there'd be no prizes for guessing what would then follow? So the 1922 committee controls

the rules of a Conservative Parliamentary Party. They can't change the rules of the leadership contest

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