Sir Graham Brady once quipped that the pile of letters calling for a vote of no confidence in the prime minister always had “an element of traffic in both directions”. “It isn’t like a thermometer outside the local hospital showing how much money has been raised.”
The MP for Altrincham and Sale West, who is the “shop steward” for Tory MPs as the head of the 1922 Committee, may become its first chair to oversee two votes of no confidence, having been in the post for more than a decade.
