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UK MPs have not yet submitted enough letters to trigger PM May confidence vote – BBC

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, makes a statement outside 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain November 14, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) – British MPs in Prime Minister Theresa Mays Conservative Party have not yet submitted enough letters to trigger a confidence vote in her, the BBC reported.

A vote can be triggered if 15 percent of Members of Parliament (MPs)in Mays Conservative Party write a letter of no confidence to the chairman of the partys so-called 1922 committee, Graham Brady.

The committee would therefore need to receive 48 letters to reach the threshold.

Reporting By Andrew MacAskill; editing by Stephen Addison

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