Is it all over for Theresa May? Westminster sources say a Tory confidence vote is nearing

It's still highly possible that the Prime Minister would either be pressed upon to stay or would decide herself to fight the vote.

By Stephen Bush

Theresa May is in Davos today and she’d be forgiven for wanting to say there indefinitely. Today’s opinion pages are full of critical articles and the Sun‘s Harry Cole reports that the number of letters calling for a confidence vote is perilously close to the 48 needed to trigger one.

For those in need of a refresh: to call a vote of no confidence in a Conservative leader, you need 15 per cent of the parliamentary party (48 MPs) to send a letter calling for one to the chair of the party’s 1922 committee, Graham Brady. The number is said to have reached 40 and one backbencher tells the Sun that Brady is “ashen-faced” at the prospect of getting more.