Her exit comes just five days after Liz Truss sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor, meaning she has lost two people from the 'four great offices of state' within her first six weeks in office.
The Prime Minister is battling to retain her position and has risked a fresh fight with Tory MPs by making a vote on a Labour motion on fracking a test of confidence in her administration.
He added of a book which is being written about her: “Apparently it’s going to be out by Christmas. Is that the release date or the title?”– Committed to the triple-lock on pensions, meaning the state pension will increase in line with the 10.1% inflation figure from April, after being threatened with a backbench revolt.– Insisted she backed social care reform following a Times report that plans for a cap on costs was being delayed for a year.
But former Cabinet minister Sajid Javid – the subject of a hostile briefing from a No 10 source who described him as “shit” – did not ask a question, despite being listed to do so. Asked about the report, the Prime Minister’s press secretary said: “I am not going to get into individual staffing matters but the Prime Minister has made very clear to her team that some of the sort of briefings that we have seen are completely unacceptable about parliamentary colleagues and they must stop.”
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