[keithpeter]

Watch out for Angela Rudd. She kept her seat (just) and could be a player.

[arethuza]

That's a huge risk though - what would happen if they won an election and their leader lost her seat!

There will be a huge push to remove her if (when) there is another election.

[jwdunne]

Yes, there were huge rumours she was in big trouble. Many recounts. She is on a knife edge.

Her majority, or lack of, would harm her authority. The Tories are all about performance and she simply hadn't performed.

[matthewmacleod]

Amber Rudd, rather than Angela - but I agree she's probably in the running if May resigns today.

[davidgerard]

Yes, but there's the minor problem she's even more out of her depth than May.

[moomin]

The conservatives have a serious problem right now: pragmatism is seen as being ideologically unsound. Look at the amount of briefing against Philip Hammond there's been. We're talking about a fairly competent, pro-Leave chancellor who has merely argued that potential downsides should be evaluated properly before charging ahead. And he's treated like a Traitor To The Cause.

The problem being that Conservative MPs can be competent, moral and a true believer in Brexit. But it seems to be impossible to be all three.

(The last sounds like a joke, but the exception may prove the rule: Stephen Phillips is definitely a true believer, and demonstrated his integrity by quitting his seat due to his horror at the way Brexit was being handled. Boris Johnson, on the other hand, is none of the above.)

[tonyedgecombe]

Yes, I fully expect them to revert to their old ways and tear themselves apart over Europe.