And he very prominently made the case for Leave , even refusing to meet with his own campaign managers . You are grouping the PLP as one single unified entity , which is conspiracy theorylevel stuff . Some in the PLP have been planning to get rid of him , most tried to make it work and as such were put in the sympathetic category by him and his aides . After a year of actually working with the man , those people were persuaded that he was in fact a terrible leader after all . That they wanted to see him gone was telling , but the membership weren ' t interested . To now group the large number of sympathetic MPs in with the small number of Blairites is just you trying to bend reality to suit what you want to believe .