Theresa May to meet with backbench Tory MP critics after election fallout
Theresa May is facing a showdown with Conservative MPs amid anger over the way the party saw its majority wiped out in the General Election.
Tory MPs furious at the election result will demand concessions on key policy areas, including Brexit, along with changes to her leadership style during the meeting of the 1922 Committee.
Graham Brady, the chairman of the influential backbench committee, told ITV's Good Morning Britain the government's "huge task" has been made "much more difficult by the result of the election" as he hit out at the Tory campaign as "one of the worst that I can recall".
But he said there was no appetite for a damaging leadership contest despite the campaign's failure.
Mr Brady said it was his priority to "keep the PM in office" and predicted MPs would rally round Mrs May.
The prime minister was seen to have made steps to ward off a leadership challenge with a Cabinet reshuffle that saw Michael Gove return and key figures remain in place, while her special advisers both resigned.
The appointment of Mr Gove as environment secretary, brought in from the cold less than a year after she sacked him, is seen as a big boost to Cabinet Brexiteers.
It came after former chancellor George Osborne, now Evening Standard editor, branded Mrs May a "dead woman walking" as he warned she could be ousted from No 10 in a matter of days.
1922 Committee chairman Mr Brady acknowledged policies set out in the Tory manifesto would have to be abandoned.
Mr Brady indicated she would have to ditch much of her controversial election manifesto in a "slimmed down" Queen's Speech on June 19 setting out the new government's programme.
The Daily Mail reported plans to scrap the triple lock on pensions, means test the winter fuel allowance and repeal the ban on fox hunting were all set to go.
Proposals to overhaul the funding of social care - dubbed the "dementia tax" by opposition parties - and expand the number of grammar schools were also said to be being heavily watered down.
The return to the Cabinet of Mr Gove - who clashed bitterly with Mrs May over tackling extremism when they were in government together under David Cameron - will be seen as an attempt to head off any challenge from the Brexiteer wing of the party.
At the same time she has brought in the more emollient figure of Damian Green as First Secretary of State - a title often associated with the role of deputy prime minister - based in the Cabinet Office, in a limited reshuffle of her top team.
Mrs May signalled she still intended to serve a full term.
"I said during the election campaign that if re-elected I would intend to serve a full term," she told reporters in No 10.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson brushed off claims he was plotting a fresh leadership bid, insisting that he fully supported the prime minister.
However many Tories are adamant she cannot lead them into another election after her disastrous showing last week at the ballot box.
It follows the resignations of her co-chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, whose abrasive style upset ministers and who were blamed by many in the party for the abysmal election campaign.
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon disclosed that senior ministers had confronted Mrs May and told her she had to change the way she operates.
The prime minister was doing her utmost to signal that it was business as usual, announcing she would be heading off to Paris on Tuesday for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron.
However she still faces a potentially tricky meeting the same day with Arlene Foster, the leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists (DUP), to finalise a deal on propping up her minority government.
There were warnings she would have to soften her stance on Brexit, as the DUP have been adamant that they cannot afford to leave the EU without a deal as it would mean a return to a "hard border" with the Republic.,