Four Cabinet members have penned newspaper articles urging Conservative MPs to end infighting and back Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Nadhim Zahawi, Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt, and Environment Secretary Ranil Jayawardena warned colleagues on Sunday that the Tory party would risk ending up in opposition if they fail to do so.
At the party’s annual conference held in Birmingham last week, senior Tory MPs openly expressed opposition to Truss’s plan to scrap the top rate of tax for higher earners, resulting in a humiliating U-turn.
Nadhim Zahawi (C) visits Broughton Airbus plant in Chester, England, on Aug. 12, 2022. (Oli Scarff – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
In his article for the Mail On Sunday, Zahawi admitted the government did not get the “whole package right” when it comes to its new economic policy, but emphasised that the prime minister “listened and decided to focus on what matters most: the bulk of our plan to get Britain moving.”…