The prime minister did not show up for Sir Keir Starmer’s urgent question because she was in a meeting with Sir Graham Brady, it has been claimed.
stood in for Ms Truss and told MPs: ‘With apologies to the Leader of the Opposition and the House, the PM is detained on urgent business… and I’m afraid you’ll have to make do with me.’To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser thatThe PM was seen leaving the Houses of Parliament this evening from the opposite benches after saying the MP was ‘not hiding under a desk’.
The PM acknowledged ‘mistakes have been made’ at a different meeting of the One Nation group of Tory MPs tonight, Conservative Party chairman Jake Berry said.He said: ‘The prime minister started by saying that mistakes have been made, she acknowledged them, she is bringing the party together. ‘Matt Hancock made a really good intervention, saying that now is the time for unity, we’ve got to get behind the PM.’
He said Ms Truss had been ‘exceptional’, and insisted he had not heard any irritation towards her in the meeting, but noted it was still going on.
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