Rishi Sunak is “highly unlikely” to make it to the next general election, an ally of Suella Braverman has claimed suggesting that anger is growing among the party’s right after yesterday’s reshuffle.
It comes amid claims that Ms Braverman is set to make a damning statement in the next 24 hours about her sacking as Home Secretary.
The letter or statement is expected to land as the Government finds out from the Supreme Court about the Rwannda deportation flights.
If judges uphold the Court of Appeal’s decision to block them on human rights grounds then there will be a huge backlash from the right of the party demanding that Britain leaves the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
According to some MPs Ms Braverman believes that Mr Sunak has “betrayed” her after she helped him get into power and then took the flak for the government policies on trying to stop the small boats.
One ally of Ms Braverman said that Mr Sunak had landed himself in “huge trouble”.
The MP said: “Basically, he has told the Red Wall that their values do not matter, that their seats don’t matter, he has a large group of MPs there now excluded from the government who are not going to just take it.
“Colleagues are getting more and more angry. I think yesterday many of us were in a state of shock, now there is just fury.
“Really colleagues do not have anything to lose in trying to change leader.
“They are going to lose their seats anyway if they do nothing so we may as well try to see what would happen with a different leader.”
The MP added: “I think it is now highly unlikely that the Prime Minister will lead us into the next election”.
While only Dame Andrea Jenkyns has so far declared that she had put in a letter asking for a leadership vote, others have privately done the same.
However, a number of MPs have said they are “waiting to see how things pan out” but intend to put letters to Sir Graham Brady chairman of the 1922 Committee “in the next week or two”.
A total of 53 letters from Tory MPs are required to trigger a vote of confidence.
One MP said: “I think it will take a few weeks but MPs on the right seem ready to go for it.”
