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Grassroots Tories believe they are just weeks away from triggering a little-known process that could help to bring down Theresa May. Party chairmen are circulating a petition calling for the party's National Convention, which represents the grassroots, to call an Extraordinary General Meeting to pass a vote of no confidence in Mrs May, the Tory leader. If the petition motion is signed by more than 65 association chairmen, the party is obliged to hold the meeting. So far between 40 and 50 party chairmen have signed it, and the threshold could be passed as early as next week. Dinah Glover, the London East area chairman who has organised the petition, said the extraordinary meeting – the first one in the party’s history - could be held as soon as next month. Ms Glover told The Telegraph: “There is a lot of frustration and anger within the party – this is a route that we have to demonstrate those feelings so we can encourage MPs to make those feelings known.” The meeting would allow MPs “to make their feelings known as well so they understand the level of anger, not only in the voluntary party but across the elected members as well," she said. “What we need is a new leader who can break the impasse, who passionately believes that Britain has a bright Brexit future.”
The EGM petition being circulated among local party chairmen The petition, a copy of which has been seen by The Telegraph, says that it has been “almost three years since we voted to leave and after two extensions to the original departure date, we no longer feel that Mrs May is the right person to continue as Prime Minister to lead us forward in the negotiations. “We therefore with great reluctance ask that she considers her position and resigns, to allow the Conservative Party to choose another leader, and the country to move forward and negotiate our exit from the EU". Schedule 3, paragraph 13 of the Party constitution says that “a petition signed by not less than 65 Constituency Association Chairmen” compels the party to call “an Extraordinary General Meeting of the National Convention”.
