Tory leader says she refused to sign the deal due to a number of sticking pointsIn his interviews this morning Wes Streeting, who is seen as a Blairite, said that if the Labour government did not deliver change for voters, it would be out. (See 9.08am.) According to Politico, at a conference in Los Angeles yesterday, Tony Blair made the same argument himself. Talking about progressive parties generally, he said.If you end up just being the managers of the status quo and the status quo isn’t working for people, they’re going to put you out.Two senior backbenchers have confirmed to The Independent that they are calling meetings with fellow parliamentarians to discuss ousting the Conservative Party leader.“We cannot continue as we are and she [Ms Badenoch] is just not up to the task,” one of the MPs said …To those few @Conservatives now briefing journalists that another leadership election is the answer I say, if after four leadership elections and utter disarray amongst MP’s over the last five years, another leadership election is what they believe the public voted for, then they are deluded.This election result was frankly the second signific tremor after the first devastating political earthquake last year. It underscored the level of anger too many Conservative voters still had for our mistakes and failures. Not to mention the terrible behaviour of too many Conservative MPs at times appearing to care more for their careers than the lives of those they were sent to serve.Conservative voters haven’t forgotten. Continue reading...