have a job as a minister, they won t be going out in public to defend and speak up in support of their leader. so that would make things pretty difficult for the prime minister and i think you have had a flavour of that this afternoon in the exchanges we saw in the house of commons, hardly any conservatives standing up in support of the prime minister and a good few interjections from tory backbenchers not necessarily those who are often quickest to criticise the prime minister, questioning his judgment and his actions with regards to this whole affair. you can tell there is discontent and there is frustration and exasperation amongst conservative mps and that election to the 1922 backbench committee will be key, and as one mp said to me, number ten is as one mp said to me, number ten is a walking talking advert for rebels to get themselves elected to that in the hope they can change the rules and somehow orchestrate a leadership
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and resubmitted her letter. that takes us up to eight mps that we know about who have submitted letters since the sue gray report was published. we know other mp said a few months ago that they had submitted letters, but the reality is that we do not actually know how many of the letters stayed submitted, how many other letters may have been submitted and dare i even suggest the idea, whether there might be mps who said they submitted a letter but have not actually done it because they are currying favour with the public, we do not know. what a cynical position, but you are right, what we need to be clear about is just because we are finding out about some of them now, it does not mean these letters are new and two people who have in recent days said that they put in a letter have actually said, it went in a few months ago. we are not necessarily getting any closer to the 5a letters that would trigger a leadership battle.