Who will join the Grant Shapps and Ed Vaizey rebellion?

A move against Theresa May led by someone with their career in front of them might be seen as a bold attempt to shake the Cabinet into action for the good of the party. But a plot led by Grant Shapps, party chairman under David Cameron, is a rather different proposition. He doesn’t seem to have much of a strategy – it looks like he’s readying the freezer bags and coming after the PM, as per George Osborne’s instructions. He blames the Tory whips for leaking his name to the press, and says it will only accelerate things. I’m not so sure. 

Shapps claims that about 30 MPs are behind him, although we don’t have names other than Ed ‘lazy’ Vaizey, who recently said he was turning against May in disgust that the Tory party conference was ‘a great opportunity to reboot the party’ that was not taken up.