Six more Tory MPs are set to submit letters of no confidence in Rishi Sunak, Dame Andrea Jenkyns has claimed.<\/p>\n
The Boris Johnson ally sent her letter to the 1922 Committee on Monday following the sacking of Suella Braverman.<\/p>\n
She said six colleagues told her they were following suit after the ex-Home Secretary’s bombshell letter to the PM yesterday attacking him over the small boats crisis.<\/p>\n
The Morley and Outerwood MP told GB News: \u201cAfter Suella\u2019s letter yesterday, obviously there was voting last night, I spoke to several colleagues and I know six who have said to me that they’re putting letters in today.<\/p>\n
“That’s if they go ahead and do it but they seemed quite adamant to me.”<\/p>\n
Dame Andrea admitted she had “wrestled” over whether to submit her letter of no confidence.<\/p>\n
She said: “I’ve really wrestled with this. I’ve had lots of constituents contact me who are really frustrated, and actually when I put my letter in, I had hundreds of people from all over the country saying thank you for doing this.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve wrestled with this, the fact that we could look very stupid toppling another leader, but I think we’ve got to bite the bullet now.\u201d<\/p>\n
A vote of no confidence in Mr Sunak would be triggered if 53 Tory MPs write to the 1922 Committee.<\/p>\n
Dame Andrea continued: \u201cI think the least I\u2019d like to see happen is where there\u2019s a vote of no confidence within the 1922.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen that will hopefully at least wake him up to realise he can\u2019t go on, but what I really want obviously is a new leader.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister angered MPs on the right of the party with his sacking of Mrs Braverman as Home Secretary following a controversial article she wrote on the policing of pro-Palestine protesters.<\/p>\n
In her letter of no confidence, which she shared on social media platform X, Dame Andrea said that “enough is enough”.<\/p>\n
She said: “If it wasn’t bad enough that we have a party leader that the party members rejected, the polls demonstrate that the public reject him, and I am in full agreement. It is time for Rishi Sunak to go.”<\/p>\n
It comes as the Prime Minister faced a major blow today with the Supreme Court ruling that the Rwanda plan is unlawful.<\/p>\n