THERESA May has survived a monumental day of political drama after winning a no confidence vote on Wednesday night.

The drama flared up and reached its conclusion in the space of just 24 hours as the veteran Maidenhead MP who rose to be Prime Minister endured the most challenging day of her political life.

It was announced at 7.45am that 48 letters calling for a vote of no confidence in Mrs May had been sent by Conservative MPs unhappy with her handling of the EU debate. Just over an hour later shortly before 9am, Mrs May appeared on television live outside number 10 to tell the public: “I will contest this vote with everything I have got.”

By 10pm the country knew she had survived with 200 of her Tory MPs supporting her and 117 voting against.

Yesterday (Thursday) Mrs May was attending an EU summit in Brussels - although before it even began the German parliament the Bundestag delivered a grim morning message by voting to oppose any renegotiation of the controversial deal that has already caused her so much trouble in her own party.

Back home support in the Royal Borough was not lacking.

Her neighbouring MP Adam Afriyie is Windsor’s representative in the house, covering the other half of the Royal Borough. He tweeted before the vote: “I will be supporting the Prime Minister tonight. It is a tough job, the toughest possible right now, she has my full support in securing our departure from the EU.”

Yesterday morning he described what had happened as a ‘solid result’.

The Royal Borough’s council leader Simon Dudley said: “The Prime Minister won a decisive vote of confidence, so congratulations to her on that. The priority now for MPs across the political spectrum is to come together and get the best deal in the interests of the country.

“The time for playing games is over now and people need to come together to act in the national interest.”

In Maidenhead, Mrs May had built an enormous residue of goodwill.