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BREXIT: WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT IS RUBBISH SAYS TORY By Sunday afternoon, around 26 backbenchers had publicly confirmed they had written letters to the head of their parliamentary ruling body

requesting the poll on the Prime Minister's future. Kettering MP Philip Hollobone became the latest to join their number yesterday, but the total remained well short of the 48 letters

required under party rules for a no-confidence vote to be held. And confusion about the stuttering plot deepened when two MPs previously named as having sent letters to Sir Graham Brady,

chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee, demanding a vote insisted they were refusing to confirm or deny whether they had done so. Advertisement RELATED ARTICLES Marcus Fysh claimed

the issue was "a private thing between Graham Brady and an MP". He added: "I have been disillusioned for a long time and I think we do need a leader who can reset the policy

and if she isn't willing to, we need someone else." Former Brexit minister David Jones, another MP previously said to be on the list of letter writers, said: "I have not made

public whether or not I have submitted a no confidence letter." With the plot threatening to fizzle out, Tory backbencher Simon Clarke pleaded with colleagues to join the push to eject

the Prime Minister. "Colleagues who have said they will act, I think now need to search their consciences and follow up on what they pledged to do." Advertisement Referring to Mrs

May's Brexit proposals, Mr Clarke said: "The point I would want to make to colleagues who are still agonising about this is if we continue with this plan we are simply not going to

have a government. "Because the clear threat that it poses to the integrity of the union is something which our colleagues the DUP will simply not put up with." > I believe 

people, the general public, want somebody new who is not > in a way tainted by all the debate, and the debacle and behaviour of > the last few years >  > Anne Marie Morris Anne

Marie Morris, another rebel Tory MP, claimed there was "no question" that the threshold of 48 letters of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May would be reached this week. She

said Mrs May "has had one of the most difficult jobs", something she respects her for, but that the Prime Minister is "not going to deliver Brexit". Asked who would

deliver for the country if Mrs May is removed, she added: "There are lots of new very bright, able people in the party. "My experience is if you name these people, it is always the

kiss of death. I think it would be somebody new, somebody from the 2010 or 2015 intake. "I don't think it will be, dare I say, one of the old guard. We use your sign-up to provide

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Images) Conservative MP Philip Hollobone (Image: LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images) "I believe people, the general public, want somebody new who is not in a way tainted by all the debate, and

the debacle and behaviour of the last few years." But Tory former leader Lord Howard said a vote of confidence would be a distraction,saying: "I don't think that Members of

Parliament should be distracted in the next few weeks by a confidence motion, or a leadership contest which might follow that. Advertisement "They should be concentrating on the

document and its implications." Former ministers Iain Duncan Smith, Owen Paterson and Theresa Villiers last night joined a delegation of Tory MPs who met the Prime Minister last night

in a last-ditch attempt to get them to change her plans. They left Downing Street later, refusing to discuss the meeting. RELATED ARTICLES Share Article