THERESA May is to give Tory backbenchers the power to draw up government policy for the first time in a bid to end rebellions against her tiny majority.

In a ground breaking move, The Sun can reveal the new PM is creating the Parliamentary Policy Board.

It will have "real muscle" to give lowly MPs a major input in making new laws before they are introduced to the Commons.

2 Theresa May will try to keep her backbenchers happy to keep control of Commons majority Credit: PA:Press Association

2 Theresa May is adopting a different more inclusive strategy to keep her troops happy Credit: AP:Associated Press

Mrs May also wants it to be an olive branch from No10 to Tories who felt left out of David Cameron's Notting Hill set "chumocracy" government.

A No10 source said: "It will be a meaningful body that will influence policy development and give an additional way for MPs to feed into the process".

Another senior Downing Street figure added: "It will have real muscle, and also be a testbed for minsters to communicate and forge policy".

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Who makes Conservative Party policy at the moment? Informal and lacking transparency, Conservative party policy is often decided by a very small group of people close to the PM, but who are they? The Number 10 Policy Unit

The policy unit is the heart of Tory policy making when they are in government and reports directly to the Prime Minister. The Unit is staffed by people handed picked by the PM and is generally the engine behind a government's biggest policy ideas.

Conservative Policy Commissions

In the run up to the last election the party established five policy commissions each led by a senior Cabinet member. Broken down into themes they took evidence from experts and presented their findings direct to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his policy team.

Parliamentary Advisory Board on Policy

Established in 2013 by David Cameron, the board was designed to allow backbenchers a more active voice in the development of party policy, and give them direct influence over the Cabinet and their advisors.

Conservative Policy Forum

Tory members don’t have much say in party policy, but they can take part in Conservative policy forums, which let members try to shape the party’s future direction.

Conservative Central Headquarters

CCHQ is home to the party’s policy and research unit which develops ideas for manifesto and beyond.

Mrs May's senior MP policy chief George Freeman will head up the body.

Britain's new Premier inherited a wafer thin majority of just 12 from Mr Cameron, making her very vulnerable to backbench revolts.

Her No10 predecessor and former Chancellor George Osborne were forced to abandon a series of new plans in the last year - from tax credit cuts to pensions reform - after Tory MPs vowed to join forces with Labour to vote them down.