How to engineering a coup d'état.

So, I think this is how it works.  You need new party leader.  The rules say that the leader is to be selected from the sitting MP’ in a very simple process.  Any MP can put their name forward.  Then, by a system of ballots, the two candidates that the MPs would like recommend to the wider Membership of the party that are leadership material go forward to the Members across the county for them to make the final decision, are selected.  In other words, the 330 MPs have themselves whittled that number down to the final 2 to present to the membership.

One must assume that they thought long and hard about what they are doing.  It is a big decision sending the two candidates out of 330 MPs to the Members for them to decide out of these two which will be the leader.  And in this case, prime minister.

Simple.

Except it’s not.  Apparently, according to MPs like Anna Soubry, one of the candidates is not prime minister material.  Well, she would say that having backed the other candidate.  But wait a minute.  This leaves us with the intriguing though disturbing thought that there is only one person in the whole of that 330 Conservative MPs who is prime ministerial material.

It also suggests people like Anna Soubry are trying to dismiss the rules of the party and deny the Membership a say by engineering a coup d'état to stop Mrs Leadsom being presented to the Members of the party.  Looks like the nasty party Mrs May once described hasn’t quite gone away yet.