A major new poll has predicted the complete annihilation of the Conservatives at the next general election... ...to the point where they wouldn’t even be the opposition party.
Labour politicians are now reportedly attending lessons in how to run a government after so few of them were serving MPs during the opposition’s previous spell in government.
They are said to be covering the role of cabinet ministers, how to run the transition after an election, and ‘scrutiny and spending’.to publicly demand Liz Truss resign, with over 100 more said to have written to Graham Brady – chief of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs – urging him to change party rules so the premier can be ousted.
In yet another blow to Truss’s authority, new chancellor Jeremy Hunt is being openly referred to as the ‘de facto PM’ and used his first official act in the position toNew chancellor Jeremy Hunt is being openly referred to as the ‘de facto PM’ by some Tory MPs Tory MP Sir Roger Gale said: ‘I think Jeremy Hunt is de facto Prime Minister at the moment. There is real power in Downing Street – but it’s not in No 10, it’s in No 11,’ according toMeanwhile backbencher Crispin Blunt told Andrew Neil on Sunday ‘the game is up and it’s now a question of how the succession is managed’.: ‘The problem is that her advisers will doubtless be working on a plan to get her out of this, but totally oblivious to the fact that it is all over.
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