Alors que David Cameron pensait en avoir fini avec la question du mariage gay de manière rapide, une partie des tories s'est rebellée et a déposé un amendement dans le but de retarder la loi sur la mariage gay, ce soir les rebelles ont été vaincu 375 - 70 avec l'aide du labour et des lib-dem.
Cependant la possibilité d'une demande de vote de confiance et le renversement du gouvernement Cameron est maintenant clairement envisagée :
Downing Street is to be warned by senior Tories that a sea change is under way in the parliamentary party as growing numbers of MPs decide that David Cameron is becoming a liability.
As the prime minister tried to reach out to Tory members, by saying that he would never employ people who sneer at grassroots activists, senior figures indicated that the chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee, Graham Brady, was expected to receive further letters calling for a confidence vote. Brady, who is understood to have been sent a limited number in recent months, will have to call a vote if he receives at least 46.
One senior figure said: "This is worse than John Major. There was quite a lot of sympathy for him because of the Maastricht rebels. He also listened, though he probably listened too much. With Cameron it feels like this could be terminal – and will be so before the election."