only sir graham brady knows how many letters have been received as of course and piece out or on the record. but many may have gone in that we don't know about. i think brady has probably given indications to number 10 about how serious the situation is i spoke. that is why downing street a signal, but they would fight a confidence votes. and again, i think that's why getting to the 181, tory on piece is going to be quite a challenge. assuming johnson does get through the next week, and this will be my final point. then of course, there's going to be a big challenge in the aftermath of the males already local elections, where i suspect the tories will do very badly. and at that point, of course, inflation will be keeping and the concerns are on cost of living will be very of the present prep is involving jillian the move in the, in the conservative party. and i think you alluded to this as well as that it's being described as sort of very tumultuous. but do you think the m p 's and the conservative party won a crisis right now on their hands such as this? i think they've been given a

he is one of those who submitted letters of no confidence to sir graham brady, the chairman of the back bench, 1922 committee. and if $54.00 letters of no confidence go in and the we that there would be a leadership challenge, there would be a vote on whether boris johnson should be ousted as as leader. now what he said at the start of that committee meeting this morning, he put aside the normal business of the public administration committee and used the arena to make that statement. he didn't say that he himself had received pressure or blackmail. he said he'd been given reports by other members of the kind of rebel clique of m. p. 's conservative em piece. but the level of pressure, he said, went far above and beyond what is normal in the circumstances. you know, the government does strong arm, it's m p 's to to vote in favor of government policy, sometimes empties waiver. sometimes they're not sure. they're called whips. us officials are called whips, and they essentially wip metaphorically, the impedes to, to vote the way that the government wants them to, but threatening to withdr