Scottish Conservatives leader Ruth Davidson has pledged her support for Prime Minister Theresa May amid an attempt to force her to resign as party leader.

Former UK Conservatives chairman Grant Shapps has admitted he has been drumming up support among fellow MPs to force May to resign.

May has faced questions over her leadership since calling a snap general election in which she lost her parliamentary majority.

Shapps' attempt to oust the Prime Minister was revealed in The Times after the Conservative whip office briefed the newspaper.

When asked about her thoughts on the leadership coup, Davidson told STV News: "I supported Theresa May during the leadership, I support her now and I will continue to support her."

Many Tory members and politicians think the Scottish Conservative leader is a possible future party leader or even a direct replacement for May.

Davidson received two standing ovations during her time on stage at her party's conference in Manchester earlier this week.

Environment secretary Michael Gove also defended May this morning, telling the BBC: "The truth is that the overwhelming majority of people want the Prime Minister to concentrate on doing the job which 14 million people elected her to do earlier this year.

"I think it would be disrespectful to those 14 million people to do anything other than concentrate on those areas where action is necessary."

In an interview on Friday morning with BBC Radio 4 on his plot to remove May, Shapps said: "They are Remainers, they are Brexiteers.

"A growing number of number of my colleagues, we realise that the solution isn't to bury our heads in the sand and just hope things will get better.

"It never worked out for Brown or Major and I don't think it is going to work out here either."