ummmm https://t.co/o2rDFJ2y7f
— Sarah Rosemary (@SarahRosemary3) January 18, 2022
I’ve also been told cabinet ministers have been phoning round MPs to try and gather support for Boris Johnson.
— kathryn samson (@STVKathryn) January 18, 2022
You just wonder where we will be by PMQs tomorrow.
Number 10 behind this? Hold a faux leadership election (Boris wins) comes back to house as emboldened PM?
— AC (@CardwellA92) January 18, 2022
“There are clearly figures in the 2019 intake who are itching to put letters in.”@GaryGibbonC4 says some new Tory MPs are considering writing letters calling for a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson.https://t.co/MAitiBczJu
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) January 18, 2022
The queue of letter-clutching MPs outside Graham Brady's office now constitutes an illegal mass gathering.
— Tom Freeman (@SnoozeInBrief) January 18, 2022
Ha ha. Only surprise is they didn't go for 'whippets-based putsch', or 'flat-cap coup'. https://t.co/Cu7uYqMI4H
— Adam Powley (@adampowley) January 18, 2022
To explain to everyone – there are 2 current stories happening right now. One is important, the other is irrelevant.
— Lloyd Hardy (@LloydHardy) January 18, 2022
Sure Gray, Cummings etc is irrelevant, it will not remove Johnson.
⚠️The real story is 24 Tory MPs from 2019 intake who are sending in letters to #1922Committee.
An MP involved in trying to encourage letters to go in tells us
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) January 18, 2022
"I think we’ve done it, difficult to tell though. Lots of shift today. The Whips operation completely backfired. Colleagues now have a sense they aren’t alone”- Worth repeating it’s all very febrile and hard to tell
Boris Johnson says 'nobody told me' No 10 lockdown garden party was against the rules https://t.co/KZEAiA9xlE
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 18, 2022
Johnson now getting burned by a ship that sank in 1545 https://t.co/M6mDyeQgdZ
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) January 18, 2022
My bit on Boris Johnson coming in like a wrecking ball https://t.co/FLwxxXguK8
— Marina Hyde (@MarinaHyde) January 18, 2022
latest polling from @SavantaComRes
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) January 18, 2022
over half (56%) say that Britain won’t forgive Johnson even if he resigned, including over two in five 2019 Conservative voters (43%)
The Red Wall plot to remove Boris Johnson – with Tory MPs meeting to discuss submitting letters – is not going down well in Cabinet
— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) January 18, 2022
'It's pretty sickening. They were only elected because of him. Most of them are a load of fucking nobodies. It's nuts'
Is it only me, or is time really running out on the PM and his excuses? At this stage, how much difference does the Gray report make, esp if Cummings has further revelations, if Gray report does not go far enough? Could an int’l crisis (say in Ukraine) buy him time?
— alexandra hall hall (@alexhallhall) January 18, 2022
The is SW1 code for: leadership contest is imminent, sign up early if you want a seat in Cabinet, am on phone to donors & getting office set up, there has to be one non-brexit nutter in last 2 https://t.co/bXlK7RbQZM
— Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) January 18, 2022
Is Johnson's best chance an early contest?
— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) January 18, 2022
54 MPs trigger a ballot and no second challenge for a year if he survives
Veteran MP says Covid = old and new intakes are strangers
Though May won 200-117 Dec 2018 and still out July 2019. Local associations could turn on Johnson too.
Anyone who backed this guy as PM should be barred from running to replace him. Newspapers which helped foist him and them on the country should be boycotted in perpetuity. Johnson should lose his pension entitlements. And there should be a general election as soon as he’s out
— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) January 18, 2022
The Conservative Party’s relationship with Johnson on becoming leader in 2019 was primarily a transactional one.
— Leicester Worker (@LeicesterWorker) January 17, 2022
– @BylineTimeshttps://t.co/Zqz5wV5q2I
Our sweary new video has had half a million views in less than 24 hours (combined across Twitter and YouTube)! Looks like a lot of people aren't in the mood to forgive or forget @BorisJohnson @Conservatives pic.twitter.com/uAxdflY8WS
— Cassetteboy (@Cassetteboy) January 18, 2022
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Senate heads for voting rights showdown as more Jan 6th subpoenas land
U.S. Democrats to start voting rights showdown with no clear path to victory https://t.co/iiePlx25jl pic.twitter.com/qr14YW5T1o
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 18, 2022
If these two voting rights bills fail, our democracy will suffer and may never recover. Republicans in the states are working every single day to undermine free and fair elections.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) January 18, 2022
The time is now for Democrats to save democracy.https://t.co/zIPx7RMKGd
Will every single Senator who publicly praised Dr. King yesterday support passage of voting rights legislation today?
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) January 18, 2022
Senate Democrats force debate on voting rights https://t.co/XYFpefqEBv
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 18, 2022
Altho Manchin & Sinema appear to remain opposed to changing the filibuster, don’t divert your attention from the fact that not a single GOP Senator is willing to vote FOR voting rights. Democrats remain united on the importance of protecting our elections.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) January 18, 2022
Texas counties rejecting 7x more mail ballot applications than 2020, DeSantis proposing voter fraud police, VA Republicans filing 20 bills to restrict mail voting. This is what GOP states doing while Manchin/Sinema give Mitch McConnell veto power over protecting voting rights
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) January 18, 2022
Voting rights aren’t partisan, senator, voter suppression is. Each senator must choose between racist voter suppression or the fundamental right of citizens in a republic to vote. The wrong choice is to align yourself on the side the Bull Connor, David Duke and George Wallace. https://t.co/xjhJKtot7m pic.twitter.com/WAjSslvJMF
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 18, 2022
.@KevinMKruse: Republicans are finally being honest about their voting rights feelings after years of 'pretend support' https://t.co/nprnXnrwli
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 18, 2022
Yolanda Renee King, granddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., calls out Sens. Manchin and Sinema during remarks on voting rights.
— ABC News (@ABC) January 18, 2022
“Our future hinges on your decision and history will remember what choice you make.” https://t.co/GKw628STWw pic.twitter.com/QhYsUHeuiy
Letter from Lakers legend Jerry West, Alabama coach Nick Saban, former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, and others to Joe Manchin in support of voting rights legislation: https://t.co/8R1yVZrrAJ pic.twitter.com/PQOYH9YRLh
— Jessy Han (@hjessy_) January 18, 2022
This ad on @Sen_JoeManchin was on the back page of the first section of the Gazette-Mail this morning.
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) January 18, 2022
(h/t Bob Baker) pic.twitter.com/3RPP7Phe1h
For the don't worry crowd…
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) January 18, 2022
Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to establish a special police force to oversee state elections — the first of its kind in the nation https://t.co/wph1ifogC3
So much for the silly narrative that Youngkin was some normal R. As @TerryMcAuliffe predicted, he's brought DeSantis anti-mask nuttery to VA. Now at war with several school districts. He's only been in office a few days. Hey, VA this is what you voted for. Best of luck.
— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 17, 2022
NEW: Trump-DeSantis tensions ratchet up https://t.co/3fP2iStJEZ pic.twitter.com/6i6FiCz3Qw
— The Hill (@thehill) January 18, 2022
Donald Trump is dangerous–Ron DeSantis is worse. My @MSNBC op-ed on how Ron DeSantis is actually more dangerous than Trump https://t.co/ZnV2AnVLtd
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) January 18, 2022
FLASH: House Jan 6 Committee has subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Boris Epshteyn, Jenna Ellis
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) January 18, 2022
Chairman says they "advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact w/ the former President…" pic.twitter.com/z6a6EymlCz
Chairman Thompson: The four individuals we've subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes." https://t.co/evqVEbqCfS
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 18, 2022
Also suspended lawyers in danger of losing their licenses https://t.co/DslF0ZNLID
— Karen Schwartz (@pithywidow) January 18, 2022
NEW: Sources tell me Jan. 6 committee may only subpoena GOP members of Congress if it can overcome one major recurring worry raised in conversations: fear of Republican retaliation in the future. @GuardianUS https://t.co/mUaQr02Bt3
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) January 18, 2022
The violence of January 6th was just a single act in the ongoing assault on our democracy. The GOP is implementing a massive scheme to gain and maintain power without guard rails. https://t.co/MZck646CnM
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) January 18, 2022
The Overnight Note 