British pm may should call a leadership contest, former party chairman says

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Prime Minister Theresa May leaves Downing Street on her way to attending Prime Minister's Questions in the Houses of Parliament on June 28, 2017 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty


Images British Prime Minister Theresa May should call a leadership election and as many as 30 of her lawmakers support telling her to go, former Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps said


on Friday. "I think she should call a leadership election," Shapps told BBC Radio 5 live. "The writing is on the wall." Shapps, who chaired the party between 2012 and


2015, said up to 30 Conservative lawmakers backed the bid to tell May to go.