🚨 EXC: Boris Johnson threatened to demote Rishi Sunak from chancellor to health secretary last week (in front of a dozen witnesses)🚨 thetimes.co.uk/article/togeth…
Johnson was furious about the leak of a letter from Sunak to the PM calling for a relaxation in Covid travel rules
Astonishingly, the prime minister had not seen a letter sent to him by his chancellor on covid travel rules several days earlier until he saw it on the front of The Sunday Times
Questions for the prime minister's private office about how much they edit/fillet his red box. How is it possible that the chancellor writes a letter to the PM and he is unaware of the fact for 3-4 days?
Senior Tories say they have heard Liz Truss mentioned by Johnson in the past as a possible chancellor thetimes.co.uk/article/togeth…
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NEW POLL: Hanbury strategy polling for Politico snap verdict on the budget.
Top line People back spending more now vs balancing the books by 56% to 12%
NEW POLL 2: Voters agree with spending more on the NHS even if that means less for other public services by 57% to 14% (Hanbury strategy for Politico)
NEW POLL 3: More people think it's a good budget for their family (32.5%) than bad (11%) but most people (56%) think it's neither good nor bad (Hanbury for Politico)
And here is Bernard Jenkin threatening to withdraw his support from his own government in a Tory WhatsApp group yesterday
2) One member of the ERG I spoke to on Friday was involved in a phone call involving at least three people. Is that a conference call?
3) The discussions involved when and how to vote against their own government to demonstrate the strength of the ERG. The budget votes were targeted since they are important and have to happen to keep the money flowing