🚨It has just been confirmed that Jacob Rees-Mogg MP is to be a Minister of State (Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government efficiency) in the Cabinet Office.
✍️Mark Spencer's departure as Chief Whip has been predicted for weeks after a series of party management missteps and a growing disconnection with the Tory backbench, writes Ben Riley-Smith telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔴Chris Heaton-Harris is to be Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip).
He will attend Cabinet after replacing Mark Spencer
✍️Chris Heaton-Harris has won the battle of the Boris loyalists to become Chief Whip and with it take up a position in the Cabinet, writes Ben Riley-Smith telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
Michael Ellis will attend Cabinet after having the role of Minister for the Cabinet Office added to his existing post as Paymaster General.
🗣️Albania’s Prime Minister has told Britain to stop blaming "innocent" Albanians for its migrant crisis in a rebuke to Home Secretary Suella Braverman's "insane" rhetoric
➡️In a series of strongly-worded tweets, Edi Rama said targeting Albanians as the cause of Britain’s crime and border problems made for “easy rhetoric but ignores hard fact”
Since Ms Truss became Prime Minister and unveiled her disastrous mini-Budget, the Telegraph’s poll of polls has shown a sharp fall in the share of British voters intending to back the Conservatives at the next general election, and a sharp rise in those intending to vote Labour
The Conservatives' position in opinion polling is now at its lowest since the last general election in 2019, and has plummeted even further than the lows of the pandemic or Boris Johnson’s final days in office earlier this year telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/2…
Britain will have a new prime minister by next Friday after Liz Truss quit having lost control of the Tory party
🗣️ Tory Party members will have a say in the contest to replace Liz Truss, it has been confirmed, in a move that could open the way for Boris Johnson’s return to No 10
🔴The fuse for Suella Braverman’s resignation was lit on Tuesday night when she had a heated face-to-face row with Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt, her new Chancellor, over their demands to soften her stance on bringing down immigration
🔴Within 24 hours of her “fiery” 90-minute meeting with the Prime Minister and Mr Hunt, Ms Braverman had been forced to resign after being accused of breaching the ministerial code on two counts for sending official documents to another MP from her personal email