'Rebels to soon have enough support to trigger confidence vote against May'

Influential British eurosceptic Conservative lawmaker Steve Baker said on Friday he believed rebels who want to oust Prime Minister Theresa May were close to having enough support to trigger a confidence vote.

"What's happened is people have been ringing me and telling me that they are putting their letters in ... and I think we're probably not far off," said Steve Baker, a key figure in the eurosceptic wing of May's party.

"I think it probably is imminent, yes," he told the BBC.