Theresa May faces showdown with mutinous Tory MPs An embattled Theresa May faces a showdown on Monday with Conservative MPs furious that an unnecessary and bungled general election […]

An embattled Theresa May faces a showdown on Monday with Conservative MPs furious that an unnecessary and bungled general election campaign resulted in the party throwing away its Commons majority.

As the Prime Minister fights for her political life, several of her own MPs doubted that she would be in her post at the end of the year and Boris Johnson was forced to deny that he was plotting a leadership bid.

She also faced demands to change her style if she wants to remain in office.

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Mrs May has been forced to ditch her two closed advisers and her impotence was further underlined by a Cabinet reshuffle yesterday which left almost all existing ministers in place.

“I’m sure there will be lots of colleagues wanting to air their concerns about the way the campaign was run and the situation in which we find ourselves.” Tory MP Graham Brady

Former Chancellor George Osborne, now the editor of the London Evening Standard, said: “Theresa May is dead woman walking. It is just how long she is going to remain on death row.

“I think we will know very shortly. We could easily get to the middle of next week and it all collapses for her.”

Tempers running high

As MPs return to Westminster following a dramatic election contest, the Prime Minister will appear on Monday afternoon before the Tory backbench 1922 Committee.

Tempers are running high within the party both over her disastrous decision to call a snap election three years early and her dismal personal performance over the last seven weeks.

“People will be looking for her to come up with some convincing answers and to show why they should have confidence in her,” one MP said.

Its chairman, Graham Brady, told BBC Radio 4’s Westminster Hour: “I’m sure there will be lots of colleagues wanting to air their concerns about the way the campaign was run and the situation in which we find ourselves, which clearly isn’t where we wanted or expected to be following the general election.”

Worries over DUP link-up

Some backbenchers are deeply dismayed that she has been forced to reach out to the socially conservative Democratic Unionist Party in an attempt to prop up a minority Conservative administration.

They are expected to challenge her over what message is sent to the electorate by a proposed alliance with a party which opposes same-sex marriage and abortion.

Others are set to confront her over her approach to Brexit talks, which are due to begin next Monday, following the evaporation of her Commons majority.

Some Eurosceptics have raised fears that Mrs May could soften her stance in the forthcoming negotiations because of her precarious political situation.

The former minister Anna Soubry said: “She is in a desperate position. It is untenable, and I think she knows that.”

Summer leadership challenge ‘possible’

Nicky Morgan, the former Education Secretary, predicted a possible leadership challenge over the summer.

“I think it’s fairly clear Theresa May cannot lead us into another election. Of course, we don’t know when that’s going to happen, and I don’t think we should rush that,” she told ITV’s Peston on Sunday.

“But I do think if we’re going to have a leadership contest in the Conservative Party, what we cannot do is have another coronation like last summer.”