U.K.’s May Faces Biggest Crisis as Confidence Vote Reports Swirl
- BBC and ITV report that Conservatives could move against PM
- The only man who knows if a challenge is on isn’t telling
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Theresa May faces the greatest crisis of her turbulent time as U.K. prime minister, with growing media reports that Conservative lawmakers were on the brink of forcing a confidence vote in her leadership.
On Tuesday evening, only one person knew for sure whether enough Tory members of Parliament had written letters demanding a vote to trigger one: Graham Brady, the party official who receives them and needs to inform the prime minister when her job is indeed on the line.