LONDON (Reuters) - Executive members of a committee representing lawmakers in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party will meet later on Wednesday to discuss changing party rules to hold another leadership challenge, broadcaster ITV (LON:ITV) said.
Nominations are expected to open on Wednesday for the executive of the so-called 1922 Committee that sets the rules for leadership confidence votes. Johnson's critics hope to elect enough people to change the rules to allow another such vote before the 12-month grace period allows.
Johnson narrowly survived a confidence in vote in June.
Paul Brand, UK editor at ITV News, said he understood that a 1922 executive meeting would be held at 4 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) on Wednesday, to discuss rule changes.
The group would then meet an hour later with the deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab, Brand said.