Grant Shapps’ bid to stir up a rebellion against Theresa May has almost certainly failed. Instead, his decision to publicly call on the PM to go has shown that even after the Tories’ lacklustre conference May still retains a wide degree of support among the party’s MPs. Here is the full list of Conservative MPs, showing who has thrown their weight behind the PM, who hasn’t and who thinks it’s time for May to go:
MPs who have publicly backed Theresa May:
Michael Gove, Damian Green, Amber Rudd, Philip Hammond, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, Patrick McLoughlin, Priti Patel, David Gauke, Brandon Lewis, David Mundell, Chris Grayling, Elizabeth Truss, Andrea Leadsom, Damian Hinds, Justine Greening, David Lidington, Nigel Evans, Liam Fox, Greg Clark, Michael Fallon, Boris Johnson, Greg Hands, Vicky Ford, Jeremy Wright, Steve Baker, James Brokenshire, David Davis, Karen Bradley, Alun Cairns, Margot James, Charles Walker, Michael Fabricant, Marcus Jones, Nadhim Zahawi, Kevin Hollinrake, Gavin Williamson, Lucy Allan, Maria Caulfield, Johnny Mercer, Mark Pritchard, Andrew Rosindell, Alex Chalk, Kit Malthouse, Bob Neill, James Cleverly, Nick Boles, Edward Leigh, Desmond Swayne, Andrew Murrison, James Heappey, Thérèse Coffey, Eddie Hughes, Daniel Kawczynski, Jesse Norman,Nadine Dorries, Crispin Blunt, Sir Nicholas Soames, John Redwood, Philip Dunne, Mims Davies, Pauline Latham, Daniel Poulter, Mike Wood, Craig Tracey,Robert Buckland, Conor Burns, Alistair Burt, Simon Clarke, Leo Docherty, Jackie Doyle-Price, Suella Fernandes, Stephen Kerr, Craig Mackinlay, Wendy Morton, Neil O’Brien, Alok Sharma, Julian Smith, Iain Stewart,Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Huw Merriman, Jacob Rees-Mogg, David Davies, Glyn Davies, Owen Paterson, Andrew Jones, John Glen, James Morris; Bim Afolami; Sarah Newton, Lee Rowley, Rachel Maclean, Sarah Wollaston
Those who want May gone:
Grant Shapps, Ed Vaizey, James Duddridge
Yet to say – but likely to be loyal to the PM:
Tim Loughton, Kemi Badenoch, Graham Brady, Robert Syms, Iain Duncan Smith, Sarah Wollaston, Stephen Crabb, Stuart Andrew, Heidi Allen, Edward Argar, Victoria Atkins, Richard Bacon, Harriet Baldwin, Steve Barclay, Guto Bebb, Richard Benyon, Sir Paul Beresford, Steve Brine, Robert Buckland, James Cartlidge, Rehman Chishti, Jo Churchill, Ken Clarke, Damian Collins, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Tracey Crouch, Caroline Dinenage, Jonathan Djanogly, Oliver Dowden, Tobias Ellwood, Michael Ellis, Charlie Elphicke, David Evennett, Kevin Foster, Mark Francois, Lucy Frazer, George Freeman, Mike Freer, Mark Garnier, Sir Roger Gale, Nusrat Ghani, Nick Gibb, Robert Goodwill, Richard Graham, Helen Grant, Dominic Grieve, Andrew Griffiths, Sam Gyimah, Robert Halfon, Luke Hall, Stephen Hammond, Matt Hancock, Richard Harrington, Oliver Heald, Peter Heaton-Jones, Simon Hoare, George Hollingbery, John Howell, Nigel Huddleston, Nick Hurd, Robert Jenrick, Gareth Johnson, Jo Johnson, David Jones, Julian Knight, Kwasi Kwarteng, Andrew Mitchell, Mark Lancaster, Phillip Lee, Alan Mak, Stephen Metcalfe, Maria Miller, David Morris, Caroline Nokes, Guy Opperman, Mark Pawsey, Mike Penning, Andrew Percy, Claire Perry, Chris Philp, Victoria Prentis, Mark Prisk, Will Quince, Gary Streeter, Mel Stride, Graham Stuart, Hugo Swire, Maggie Throup, Kelly Tolhurst, Justin Tomlinson, Thomas Tugendhat, Robin Walker, Ben Wallace, David Warburton, Matt Warman, Helen Whately, Craig Whittaker, Jake Berry, Michael Tomlinson, Ross Thomson, Bob Blackman, Andrew Bowie, Ben Bradley, Paul Masterton, Rebecca Pow, Kirstene Hair, Alex Burghart, Michelle Donelan, Steve Double, Alan Duncan, Marcus Fysh, Rebecca Harris, Bernard Jenkin, Seema Kennedy, Paul Maynard, Penny Mordaunt, John Penrose, Tom Pursglove, Paul Scully, Caroline Spelman, Andrew Stephenson, Rishi Sunak
Unknown:
Nigel Adams, Adam Afriyie, Peter Aldous, David Amess, John Baron, Henry Bellingham, Peter Bone, Peter Bottomley, Jack Brereton, Andrew Bridgen, Fiona Bruce, Bill Cash, Christopher Chope, Jo Churchill, Colin Clark, Alberto Costa, Robert Courts, Geoffrey Cox, Chris Davies, Philip Davies, Jonathan Djanogly, Richard Drax, David Duguid, George Eustice, Mark Field, Cheryl Gillan, Zac Goldsmith, Luke Graham, Bill Grant, James Gray, Chris Green, Mark Harper, Trudy Harrison, Simon Hart, John Hayes, Chris Heaton-Harris, Gordon Henderson, Nick Herbert, Philip Hollobone, Adam Holloway, Alister Jack, Ranil Jayawardena, Andrea Jenkyns, Dr Caroline Johnson, Gillian Keegan, Sir Greg Knight, Eleanor Laing, John Lamont, Jeremy Lefroy, Oliver Letwin, Andrew Lewer, Julian Lewis, Ian Liddell-Grainger, Julia Lopez, Jack Lopresti, Jonathan Lord, Anne Main, Scott Mann, Stephen McPartland, Esther McVey, Mark Menzies, Amanda Milling, Nigel Mills, Anne Milton, Damien Moore, Nicky Morgan, Sheryll Murray, Matthew Offord, Neil Parish, Christopher Pincher, Tom Pursglove, Jeremy Quin, Dominic Raab, Laurence Robertson, Mary Robinson, Douglas Ross, David Rutley, Antionette Sandbach, Andrew Selous, Bob Seely, Keith Simpson, Chris Skidmore, Chloe Smith, Henry Smith, Anna Soubry, Mark Spencer, Royston Smith, John Stevenson, Bob Stewart, Rory Stewart, Julian Sturdy, Derek Thomas, David Tredinnick, Shailesh Vara, Martin Vickers, Theresa Villiers, Giles Watling, Heather Wheeler, John Whittingdale, Bill Wiggin, William Wragg
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