Senior Tories have rallied around the PM amid claims that some party MPs are plotting to replace him with Penny Mordaunt
Senior Tories attempted to rally behind an increasingly beleaguered Rishi Sunak on Saturday night amid claims that some Conservative MPs are plotting to replace him with Penny Mordaunt before the next general election.
Mordaunt made no public comment about the claims but her supporters said she was not party to, or aware of, any such plot, and that she believed the stories were an attempt by her detractors on the right to damage any potential challenge she may make in future, after a Tory election defeat. “We need to fight this election together and we won’t do it if we are fighting each other,” Davis said. “Whoever won such a contest would be the shortest serving prime minister ever – even shorter than Liz Truss.”It has been reported that some Tory MPs want Penny Mordaunt, the leader of the House of Commons, to replace Rishi Sunak.Rees-Mogg said any attempt to hold yet another contest would backfire: “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
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