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5:58pm on Wednesday, 6th July, 2022:
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I don't usually offer advice to the Conservative party's 1992 Committee of back-benchers, but if they want to change their rules to make it possible to vote out a Prime Minister who has survived a vote of no confidence without having to wait another year, yet not find themselves voting every other week, the way to do it is to increase the threshold for requests for a vote by 5% or 10% each time.
At the moment, 15% of Conservative MPs need to send a letter to the chair of the 1922 Committee's to trigger a no-confidence vote. If they want another one within a year, make it 25%. If that fails, let them try again at 35%. That would stop a PM's supporters from calling for a no-confidence vote prematurely in order to buy a year's protection, and would enable back-benchers to remove a PM who, say, turned out to be even worse than they thought he was when they voted on the subject the previous month.
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