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Sep 29 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
EXC: From the cabinet down there is private unease and anger about the £45 billion package of tax cuts, and the fall-out.

One cabinet minister told me the government had got the timing and sequencing wrong by announcing it while inflation was so high

thetimes.co.uk/article/cabine…
A former minister said: “It’s as bad as partygate. I’ve got members resigning telling me they’ll never vote for me again while she is prime minister. Where is she? If you are going to be Maggie at least come and front it out.“
A red wall Tory MP: “I think the plans are the right ones, badly communicated. More needed to be done to connect the energy stuff - one of the biggest welfare interventions ever - with the growth stuff. I’m all in favour of tax cuts but there has been a shit PR management of it.”
A 2019 intake southern MP: “It seems the chancellor was so keen to be seen as hard line that he forgot the details like - financial analysis! He will double down but it feels like if there isn’t a massive turn around I really can’t see us winning the next general election.”
One long-serving former cabinet minister: “I think the markets will force us to balance the books so it will be back to austerity and a re-run of the 2015 election arguments.”
A long-serving Conservative MP: “I can't make out if this is very clever or very stupid.”

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Sep 29
Ahahaha. Liz Truss ladles on how pleased she is to be on BBC Leeds.

But is repeatedly pushed by @therimaahmed on her absence during a week of chaos.

“Where have you been?”
Listening to Truss now on BBC Norfolk you can’t help thinking it might have been better if they’d just done the energy bills stuff, and not the “elements of controversy” in the mini-budget
“This is the right plan that we’ve set out. This is about making sure that people are going into the winter not worried about ultra-high fuel bills.”

Her focus all on energy and not cutting top rate of tax, bankers bonuses, growth plan etc
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Run for office?

They can barely stand like normal people
Sunak is tieless so all eyes on Tugendhat to do a Rory Stewart

Q1. “Why should the public trust any of you?”

Truss now talking about trade deals which I’m not sure is what they meant.
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Jun 24
HOW TO REMOVE A PM

Tory MP Geoffrey Clifton Brown spells out to me on @timesradio what the 1922 committee will do next:

"There are there are two routes by which he could be persuaded to resign...

1/4
"One is by the whole executive of the 1922 Committee, having taken into account the wider views of the entire parliamentary party, and then decide to change the rules. That is quite difficult, I think to change the rules in mid contest." 2/4
"Or the other way is for the majority of the cabinet to say that they have no confidence in the Prime Minister, in which case he would not be able to carry on. So I think there will be a lot of conversations taking place next week. And we'll have to see what happens." 3/4
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Jun 24
Priti Patel tells @TimesRadio:

"Oliver is a loss, I say that a colleague but also he has worked incredibly hard in government."
Patel to @TimesRadio:

"What I would say is we have gone through very publicly a very difficult period."

"It's important that we reflect on these results. We fought these against a difficult and challenging backdrop."
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Patel tells @TimesRadio: "Well if I may can I put a few things into context... the Conservative party in government is a team... lead by the prime minister..."
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Apr 20
Business minister Paul Scully tells @timesradio: “I think the prime minister not only did he apologise, he made his statement, in his opinion at the time he was in a work setting… nonetheless he respects the decision of the police… paid fine…made apology”

Ringing endorsement?
Scully: “Two years on, 120,000 have died… There is palpable anger out there.”
Scully: “You can get hung up on a particular level of wording two years on when you’re looking at things through a different prism”
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Jan 14
It sounds pompous, but it’s the total disrespect for the office. You are working in Downing St ffs. For the actual prime minister. Get dressed properly and do some bloody work.

Instead it’s all skinny jeans and trainers and shitposting and vanity photographers and piss-up.
In 17 years in Westminster, I mostly had the idea that people working in government were largely trying their best (even the useless ones), were daunted by that black door, were grown ups running the country.

Now it’s all wine o’clock and who gets a spin on Carrie’s lazy susan
My benefit of the doubt. My assumption of a degree of competence. My willingness not to assume the worst of the British public. My determination not to be an anti-Tory rent-a-gob. All of that means trying to deny a gut feeling that he is appallingly unfit to be PM
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