cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
A BBC journo just made the point that Thatcher won a no confidence vote with more votes than Theresa May (204 I think he said) but still resigned over it.
She did get 204 votes, but 152 voted against her, so only won by 52, whereas May won by 83, Thatcher needed a 15% majority & was 4 votes short at only 54.8%, so as SpackleFrog posted, it was going to a second round, which the cabinet convinced her, she wouldn't win.
The rules have changed, so May only needed to win by a single vote.