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  A Tory rising star today issues a call to arms for MPs to oust Theresa May, saying Britain cannot be led by someone guilty of an “abject failure to govern” at such a defining moment in our history. Writing in The Sunday Times, Johnny Mercer says he “cannot continue to support an administration that cannot function” on issues from Brexit to the Grenfell Tower disaster and the Windrush scandal.
  He spoke out as numerous Tory MPs said May was on course to face a vote of no confidence this week as all wings of the party united against her.
  
  An ally of David Davis, the former Brexit secretary who is tipped as an interim leader, said May was entering “the killing zone”. One who hopes to succeed added: “Assassination is in the air.” The prime minister has been summoned to plead for her job before the back-bench 1922 committee on Wednesday — a process dubbed “a show trial” by one Tory. She is now under attack from her MPs on five fronts as it was claimed that:
  
  ● Up to 46 MPs have sent a letter demanding a contest, two short of the number needed
  ● A “handful” of cabinet members would vote against May in a secret ballot
  ● Organisers of the People’s Vote march are talking to 50 Tories, including five frontbenchers, who might back a second referendum
  ● Allies of Davis are encouraging the coup and have sounded out Boris Johnson’s friends to see if the former foreign secretary would stand aside
  ● Brexit secretary Dominic Raab is expected to use a BBC interview today to insist that May cannot sign up to membership of a customs union without an end date.
  
  Mercer’s intervention is significant because it reveals how mainstream Conservatives have joined hardline Brexiteers in opposing the prime minister. The former army officer revealed that he has received “overwhelming” messages of support from ministers and MPs after branding the government “a shitshow” last week. Today he attacks what he calls an “abject failure of this government to govern, to lead”, condemning May’s cautious managerial approach. “I cannot continue to support an administration that cannot function,” he writes.

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