Tory Mayor Praised By Rishi Sunak Blames Prime Minister For Tory 'Chaos'

Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.

Rishi Sunak travelled to Teesside last Friday to congratulate Houchen on his re-election.following his re-election last week has said the prime minister is ultimately to blame for the “chaos” in the party.said the Conservatives were “fighting like rats in a sack” and needed to urgently unite ahead of the general election.

But in an interview with BBC Radio Tees today, the mayor hit out at the in-fighting tearing the Tories apart. “Ultimately, you’re the one responsible for it. But there are lots of people who are involved in the problems with the Conservative Party. It’s a bit of chaos at the minute, right, isn’t it?, and ultimately the public do not vote for parties who are not united and are not presenting a united front and also aren’t talking to the public.

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