Liz Truss's attempts to resuscitate her premiership seemed to have gone well - but then the number of MPs openly opposing her suddenly ballooned overnight
Others had resorted to gallows humour. One senior backbencher said: “Perhaps everyone should just have a chance to be the prime minister for a day over the next 18 months? We just take it in turns until the election comes along.”
Ms Truss consulted her inner circle Thursday morning – talks kept so tight that even some of the most senior officials in No 10 were unaware they were taking place. Around 11.30am, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman told journalists that she still intended to lead the Conservatives into the next election and said there were no plans for her to meet with Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs..
The decision was made, and aides announced that the Prime Minister would urgently make a statement outside the front door to No 10 after she had called Buckingham Palace to inform the King. Cabinet ministers were blindsided by the news – Penny Mordaunt, a leading candidate to replace Ms Truss, was heard saying: “I’m going to keep calm and carry on.”
Other senior Conservatives were less sanguine. Sir Christopher Chope, a veteran MP of four decades’ standing, told: “I’m ashamed the way in which my revolting colleagues, I’m going to call them, have basically destroyed another prime minister and leader of our party. And I don’t see now that there’s any reasonable response we can make other than to call an immediate general election.”
No Tories in Westminster can see a clear way out of their current mess – but most are relieved the Truss psychodrama is at an end. “At least she’s gone, that’s something,” a backbencher remarked last night. “She’s the Lady Jane Grey of prime ministers.”
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