Conservative Party In Open Civil War Ahead Of Liz Truss Speech

The new prime minister isn’t enjoying a dream start to her time at No. 10 (Picture: Getty)

The Conservative Party is in disarray amid the mess over his economic plans and questions about Liz Truss‘ leadership.

Ministers and MPs are openly bickering and questioning the government’s direction, while the interior minister accused her own colleagues of orchestrating a ‘coup’.

Just a month after her premiership, a former minister has suggested that Mrs Truss may only have 10 days to make it – and another has told her to call a general election.

The consequences of the failed attempt to scrap the top tax rate and confusion about when the full tax plan will be published continues to divide party and government.

Suella Braverman said she was “disappointed” that the 45p policy had been dumped and accused senior MPs such as Michael Gove of undermining the prime minister.

Mr Gove appeared on a studio panel on Sunday during Ms Truss’s BBC interview, openly attacking the tax plan and indicating he would be willing to vote it down.

Leveling secretary Simon Clarke backed the Home Secretary’s comments, saying on Twitter that she “is speaking a lot of common sense as usual.”

But Commerce Minister Kemi Badenoch openly chided her for the intervention, saying: ‘I don’t think we should talk about coups. I think that kind of language is just too inflammatory.

Suella Braverman accused senior Tory MPs of launching a ‘coup’ against the government’s tax plans (Photo: Getty)

‘People should be able to change their minds without the world ending.’

Ms Braverman was also openly criticized by Lord Jo Johnson, a Tory peer and younger brother of Boris, for describing the families of international students as ‘piggybacking’ on visas and not ‘contributing to the growth of our economy’.

He said the comments “tell her stint as Home Secretary if this becomes her approach to, frankly, one of the most promising export industries the UK has.”

The government appears poised to announce that it is waiving a pledge to increase benefits in line with inflation, and instead tying them to lower wage growth, a move that would cost billions to pay for tax breaks. .

Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch fired back at her cabinet colleague (Picture: PA)

Several backseat MPs are outraged at the suggestion and even Commons leader Penny Mordaunt, who sits in the cabinet, sided with critics, saying it “makes sense” to increase benefits.

Welsh secretary Robert Buckland said he supported maintaining full prosperity improvements, while Mel Stride, chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, said he had to “think long and hard” about voting with the government on a watered-down plan.

Former transport secretary Grant Shapps, who opposed scrapping the 45p tax rate, suggested the new prime minister may only have a few days to salvage her premiership.

He told The News Agents podcast: “The next 10 days is a critical period, she has to deliver a conference speech after a couple of very rough days, she’s getting MPs back together for the first time since things got choppy. ‘.

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng face an uphill battle to unite a divided Tory party (Picture: PA)

When asked whether a rapid change in leadership is possible, Mr Shapps said he wanted the Prime Minister to turn things around but admitted that “anything is possible”.

In response to Ms Truss saying that most of the government policies inherited from the previous government are under review, ex-minister Nadine Dorries challenged the Prime Minister to call a general election.

The staunch Boris Johnson supporter wrote on Twitter: ‘Conservative government elected on the basis of a manifesto, that’s how democracy works.

“People voted in ’19 for the policy promises we made (and for Boris).

“If we don’t want to deliver on the deal, the promises, we need a new mandate.”

Meanwhile, Robert Halfon, the Tory chairman of the selection committee on education, admitted that “last week has been grim, grim at the conference, and grim.”

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