Liz Truss is set for a showdown as her whips turn tonight's fracking vote into a 'motion of confidence' in her Government
s party hopes will allow for time to debate on the controversial method of gas extraction.said she was ending the moratorium on it.whips have told the party's MPs: "This is not a motion on fracking. This is a confidence motion in the government."We are voting NO and I reiterate, this is a hard three line whip with all slips withdrawn."It means any Tories who defy the vote face being thrown out of the party.
She pulled out of a factory visit she was due to embark on after Prime Minister's Questions along with the media without giving a reason.'Gone, gone, gone, when are you going?': Tetchy Truss insists she is a 'fighter not a quitter' in make-or-break PMQsShadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband MP said: "Labour will stand with communities in opposing the Conservatives' dodgy plans to impose expensive, dirty, and dangerous fracking on the British people.
"I would no longer maintain a position as a chair of one of the select committees of the House. And indeed, because of that, my letter lodged with my honourable friend, the member for Altrincham and Sale West, would fall, and I wish to maintain that letter with my honourable friend," he said.
Sir Keir said: "45p tax cut, gone. Corporation tax cut, gone. 20p tax cut, gone. Two year energy freeze, gone. Tax free shopping, gone. Economic credibility, gone.
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