the mp , graham brady. today.oday has clearly been an absolute disaster but the election is not irrevocable. up until the point of the dissolution of parliament, when the writs are moved to begin the contest, it can still be aborted. in other words, if enough tory mps who are clearly going to lose their seats in this already utterly shambolic campaign write to sir graham brady tomorrow. the election could still be revoked. lauren, your reaction . lauren, your reaction. >> i don't know about the 22 rules on once an election has been called and versus versus when dissolution actually shows up because one is one is a parliamentary procedure and one is a conservative party procedure. and they may actually be in some conflict there. i do, however, think that once an election announcement comes, everybody's got to start rowing in the same direction. we can't use this as an opportunity to fight like ferrets in a sack, because no one's going to vote for us. >> and it's really stupid things with respect, it looks like it's

the mp , graham brady. today.ay has clearly been an absolute disaster but the election is not irrevocable. up until the point of the dissolution of parliament, when the writs are moved to begin the contest, it can still be aborted. in other words, if enough tory mps who are clearly going to lose their seats in this already utterly shambolic campaign write to sir graham brady tomorrow. the election could still be revoked. lauren, your reaction . lauren, your reaction. >> i don't know about the 22 rules on once an election has been called and versus versus when dissolution actually shows up because one is one is a parliamentary procedure and one is a conservative party procedure. and they may actually be in some conflict there. i do, however, think that once an election announcement comes, everybody's got to start rowing in the same direction. we can't use this as an opportunity to fight like ferrets in a sack, because no one's going to vote for us. >> and it's really stupid things with respect, it looks like it's h

there is a point there, but i also agree with graham brady because the point is it is very hard to governary party when you don't have the confidence of members of parliament. and you would i would also argue you would expect members of parliament to vote for the leader who they believe is the most likely to win the next general elections. they wouldn't just vote with their personal politics, they would also vote with the kind of person who they think would would win. you're looking at me soaked. no, because i'm afraid to say you're being very generous. >> most mps vote on the basis of his most likely to give them a job. yes. >> oh, yeah. i'm sorry about that. >> that's why my eyebrows were disappearing into outer space. jerry, let me give you a chance to have a go on this. >> well, you see, if we'd had democracy in the proper way, as it's now, is in all the parties might . it's now, is in all the parties might. margaret it's now, is in all the parties might . margaret thatcher would might. margaret thatcher would never have been prime minister. it would have been willy whitehall. it's ma

except sir graham brady. a lot of speculation and that there could be an attempt to stop this general election . i have to say general election. i have to say i think it's very, very unlikely. but then i also have to say i didn't think we'd have a prime minister that only lasted seven weeks, and i didn't think they'd get rid of boris johnson, who got them an 80 seat majority. so, hey, what do i know? >> stranger things have happened. there's never a dull day in politics, is there? catherine, thank you very much for bringing us up to speed. i want to come back to that nigel farage thing after the break, because that has really got a lot of you talking at home. so get your thoughts in on that one. get over to the twitter or the ex poll and let me know your thoughts on that one. but more broadly, i mean, were you shocked by what happened yesterday? kelvin. >> yeah, i thought it was appalling. i thought it was quite wrong and right. so obviously i'm a i'm on the right. you're not. i you have hit that a second. >>

you've got mike freer, graham brady, theresa may.ert hur often, robert goodwill, adam afriyie , lucy allen i mean, the afriyie, lucy allen i mean, the list goes on and on. chloe smith alok sharma, paul scully, douglas ross , gary streeter lots douglas ross, gary streeter lots of names that people will recognise. lots of names that have been on this programme. >> yes, but will you miss them? in a statement, nadhim zahawi wrote. it's time for a new energetic conservative party, adding that my mistakes have been mine. no, a new energetic conservative member of parliament for the area that he's in, saying his mistakes have been mine. >> well, let's speak to gb news political correspondent now, olivia utley, because this is becoming a steady drumbeat. the prime minister wanted a steady drumbeat of rwanda flights going off this summer. instead, he's got resignations as he has 64 resignations. >> now to put that in context, in 1997, before the blair landslide , there were 75 landslide, there were 75 conservative resignations . we're conserv

. >> dame andrea, just very briefly , sir graham brady was briefly, sir graham brady was talking aboutg a leader, are lots of members tell us on a daily basis that the conservative party doesn't listen to them anymore. they just don't get it. they ignore them and they feel totally disillusioned, which i guessis totally disillusioned, which i guess is what you're seeing with the results from last night. do you respect the members anymore? does the conservative party respect its members? >> absolutely. we respect our members. i mean , all of us as members. i mean, all of us as constituency mps spend time with our members. we provide , talks our members. we provide, talks and q&a sessions and we absolutely listen to their feedback . and we have policy feedback. and we have policy forums for people to provide input directly to the party on their views. and we're so grateful to all of our members for all that they do. many of them go on to become councillors or parish councillors . so many do. >> so sir graham wants them excluded from the membership then from the leadership race. if you res

well, i saw graham brady, chairman of the 1922, at an event last night, and i asked him about that.ever, infuriatingly, he was inscrutable and discreet, which is why we want a new chairman of the 1922. but of course, now the election is called. it doesn't matter. sunak leads them into the general election, and we can see what that election is going to be about. tom, from that speech, which i must say was pretty unfortunate. why didn't he do that speech indoors in number 10? why did he get soaked? they were playing. things can only get better down the end of downing street with that terrible steve bray. but actually i was thinking things can only get wetter. it was a terrible image. and then of course you get starmer, nice and dry in his office with two union flags on either side of him. i know which one looks better. and it wasn't the prime minister's, although although keir starmer was standing too close to the wall, that was my that was my criticism of the setup. >> although i suppose in his defence it was very last minute. well, andrew pierce, thank you so much forjoining us of s

names, including ben wallace, nadhim zahawi, sajid javid, theresa may robert halfon, bill cash, graham bradycey crouch , mike freer, kwasi crouch, mike freer, kwasi kwarteng, brandon lewis, craig mckinley. i could go on, but i'd start to sound like i'm singing. we didn't start the fire, but honestly, this is a huge change of the guard in parliament. this is one of those big, big moments that actually, no matter how the country votes, there'll be lots of different mps because surely some of these seats will remain blue. but just with different faces. so no matter how the country votes, parliament will look very, very different in six weeks time. and that is a bit of a step change moment for our politics. >> tom, look, i'm no politician, right? you might have spotted it, mate, but i mean, you know, we had the election battle launched. >> oh, you know, politicians. i thought you were. i thought you were representing either the snp or the lib dems with the bright yellow. >> i recognise i'm representing a banana party today, but i mean, you know, we had it launched in the pouring rain. >> man doe

graham brady isn't commenting. time is running out.phen, but it just shows, the cold fury amongst some tory mps about why this pm is calling election when he's so far behind in the polls. it's the biggest political risk i think a sitting pm has taken in decades. normally you're far ahead in the polls or you have to call an election before you call it voluntarily, calling it when you're so far behind is highly, highly risky. and some of his colleagues don't understand it. by the way, those are those those, tory colleagues haven't been spoken to by the prime minister. normally, what happens is the meeting of the 1922 committee of tory mps. they meet, they hear what the pm has to say. they're sent out to the country to fan out to their constituencies and try and win back another term of government for the term of office in the government . that hasn't happened government. that hasn't happened this time. and mps, tory mps are scratching their heads. >> okay, christopher, good to see you. thank you. and we'll keep up to date with chris, of

me, which i haven't heard mooted so far, is just maybe be the chair of the 1922 committee, sir graham bradya great slew of letters from tory mps saying, look, enough is enough rafe it is time to kick rishi sunak out, to rub rishi out and so he's thought. two possibilities. one, i go to the country or two back me or sack me . that's been done before. me. that's been done before. i mean, i mean, the interesting thing about all this is, is that things can feel sluggish and then suddenly they can happen so dramatically . think of margaret dramatically. think of margaret thatcher, when one minute she seemed to be home and dry, and then suddenly she was out. >> something like that. >> something like that. >> that's very interesting that you're suggesting that perhaps it could be that rishi sunak , it could be that rishi sunak, that there's lots of votes of no confidence or letters of no confidence or letters of no confidence being put in. i mean, thatis confidence being put in. i mean, that is a possibility. i mean, would that would that lead to, ministers being, would that would that lead to, mi

conservative mps would have to write a letter to graham brady. technical ability to do that. they would then be a vote of no confidence that sunak would almost certainly win overwhelmingly. so it's not just triggering the 53 to call that no confidence motion . you then no confidence motion. you then need 175 to go along with this plan . they have nowhere near plan. they have nowhere near that level of support. so i think actually if this gets off the ground any more than it already has, it makes the conservative party and the plotters look even more preposterous. if people had wanted to get rid of rishi sunak, they needed to do this 6 or 12 months ago. and there has never been sufficient support to even trigger a contest, were warned. >> they were warned. you know how bad things are going to get under rishi, right? >> but i'm just saying they could have i mean, it's required 53 tory mps at any time to trigger that contest, then about 170 to remove the leader of the party. you can't try doing this on the day the leaders called an election. >> when

graham brady won't tell me, you'd expect he would do to get them all off because the election, let me starts tomorrow. the campaigning starts tomorrow. i have no idea, he says. and i couldn't care less when i said, is the pm going to speak to you? i said to him, this is the biggest political gamble taken by a sitting pm in decades, he added. who owns an estate in california? >> well, so there's already huge division within the party. we speak all the time about united parties win general elections, five minutes after the election. the speech today, beg your pardon ? this sounds like pardon? this sounds like anything but a united conservative party. >> it feels chaotic. now. let's give them a break here. we didn't know about it, so it's confused us a bit in the media and amongst tory mps, amongst the key team around the pm. clearly they know what's going on, but they weren't briefing it to anybody else or even indicating an election was coming. he's used the one big bazooka he's got in his arsenal, which is a surprise election to surprise everybody. the surprise is caused because it's

just sajid javid and nadhim zahawi, but now, as you say, andrea leadsom, michael gove adding to graham bradyho only got in at the last election, she announced she was standing down, quite some time ago. there is a huge changeover taking place now. some people suggest that's because lots of people think they were going to lose their seats, and they'd rather bow out with dignity than be turfed out by their electorates. but there are other people standing down in very safe seats. who seats that the tories even held at their nadir in 1997, who perhaps just don't fancy a spell in opposition, who perhaps think that their time in politics is over. that their time in politics is over . there was a considerable over. there was a considerable changing of the guard back in 2010, but that was because of the expenses scandal . lots of the expenses scandal. lots of members of parliament for from all parties stood down after a bit of a push from their central party organisations because of the, different , issues that the, different, issues that they've had with expenses. this time it's slightly different.