SO we have reached the stage questions are being asked about how long Theresa May’s doomed premiership can now last.

I have to admit this inevitable situation is happening earlier than I predicted previously, believing a leadership election was most likely at the Tories’ conference this October.

A growing number of voices are saying the Prime Minister will struggle to last even to the end of the summer.

By all accounts the PM previously ran the government in a presidential style.

However that all changed after June 9 and an election that saw the government’s majority disappear, and many of the individual majorities of Conservative MPs shrink.

So basically, having lost the respect of her cabinet, a power struggle is developing.

The rules have changed and we are getting leaks from inside cabinet - with one journalist revealing five sources tipped him off about the alleged comments Chancellor Philip Hammond made about public sector workers being overpaid.

The PM’s latest move was reportedly to tell her cabinet to “end the backbiting” and keep discussions private.

It appears her control is diminishing, and party discipline is disappearing. Backbenchers, who previously felt silenced, are speaking up too.

All this came only days after the PM attempted a relaunch, to mark a year since taking on the top job.

All it did was highlight the divisions and infighting, with Tories commenting it was too little too late.

These are all scenes perhaps more suited to the politically volatile world of Game of Thrones, than at the heart of a government meant to be setting out on a new five year term.

So where does this all lead?

As I say, a leadership contest could happen within weeks.

Political commentators say Mrs May is still only in office because of fears inside the party that a contest could be damaging.

That could quickly change.

Bookies have it as a three-way contest between the Chancellor, David Davies and Boris Johnson.

I’m still not ruling out outsider Sajid Javid, Bromsgrove MP and Communities Secretary, currently around 20/1, to become the next PM.

In these politically uncertain times it is difficult to predict anything. That also means anything could happen.