'Discipline is breaking down' among the Tories as trouble spreads to the Cabinet, Andrew Marr has said
"Discipline is breaking down" among the Tories as trouble spreads to the Cabinet, Andrew Marr has said.Opening LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr, the presenter said tensions continued to grow within the Tory party, with even senior ministers turning on Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Andrew continued: "But let’s look at the proposal to squeeze benefits by not uprating them with inflation, one of the ways the Prime Minister had wanted to save money. "Next, Simon Clarke, the Levelling Up Secretary and former chief secretary to the Treasury comes out against the reversal of the 45p tax cut just announced by the Chancellor and Prime Minister."Braverman says that she was 'disappointed' by the u-turn and accuses Tory members of staging a coup."But hold on. if you attack a u-turn just carried out by your leader isn't that now rebellion? Only asking for a friend.podcast Tonight with Andrew Marr only on Global Player.
"I was told: 'If a Prime Minister can't get her business through the House of Commons and the party can't get rid of the Prime Minister then that's national paralysis and at that point the King has a duty to step in.
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