HS2 and a tax pledge signed by some Conservatives could make this an awkward Tory Party Conference for Rishi Sunak. | ITV National News
It could be an awkward Conservative Party Conference for Rishi Sunak, as Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen reports from Manchester.. Of course he might be limiting the number of people who take the train up in future too if - as widely expected - he cancels the remaining northern leg of HS2.
A further distraction popped up this morning in the form of a Tory "tax pledge". More than 30 Conservative MPs, including Liz Truss, but drawing from different wings of the party have signed this pledge. Amongst Conservatives this is relatively uncontentious in principle, but in practice it is nothing less than a threat to vote against any tax raising budget. That would effectively be an issue of confidence in the prime minister.
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