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Tory plotters want to fast-track the no confidence process to oust Rishi Sunak if he tries to call an early election, it was claimed yesterday.
One MP said some were drawing up electronic letters of no confidence that can be sent instantly by text or Whats-App, in a bid to avoid a summer poll.
The aim would be to submit them within minutes if MPs caught wind that the Prime Minister was planning a meeting with the King to seek permission for dissolving Parliament.
Sir Graham Brady, to whom letters must be submitted to as chairman of the 1922 Committee, has let it be known he will accept them electronically, an MP said.
Fifty-three must be submitted to trigger a no confidence vote. Rebels claim the number of letters already submitted is in the mid-20s.
Tory MPs want to fast-track a vote of no confidence in Rishi Sunak if he tries to go for a summer election, it has been claimed
Some MPs said the strategy would not work as the process would still give Mr Sunak enough time to ask the King for a dissolution for an
