I recall documentaries where the senior ministers (Hurd etc) said they would support her in the second ballot, but they thought she would lose regardless. This (the notion that the "rank and file" Tory MPs would vote against her en masse) ,, together with her going into the next general election with the electoral ire of the Poll tax + the feeling of "stayed too long" on her head, seemed to have been enough for her to make the cecision.
This **** has been front and centre recent weeks. A sacrificial lamb on the Johnsonian altar. He was spouting the ' I was a teacher, my wife worked for the NHS' line earlier on C4News. He's a true scumbag!
In other news....they're at it again, misrepresentation on election materials, this time in Tiverton by-election