Truss does what looks like a hostage video with @ChrisMasonBBC.
That moment when she pauses after being asked whether she will lead the Tories into the next election...
No10 will be delighted to lead the news with this Truss interview...when the real story of today is her total silence in the Commons.
" I do want to accept responsibility and say sorry, for the mistakes that have been made."
Note the passive tense, when the honest thing to do would have been to say "the mistakes that *I* made".
"I have said sorry.."
Yes, weeks after the mini-Budget and 3 days after her last disastrous 'press conference'.
I think the way Truss *laughs* in answer to @ChrisMasonBBC question if she'll lead the Tories into the election...won't look very funny to millions of mortgage payers.
It's so excruciating to watch.
Like it's really all a game.
.@ChrisMasonBBC's exclnt Qs to Truss, repeated this morning, confirmed the depth of the hole she has dug for herself.
*Points out she "made it harder for people to pay their bills"
*Asks if anyone can ever believe anything she says again
Qs that won't go away, despite her laugh.
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One MP close to the action last night ridiculed Jacob Rees-Mogg's late attempt to tell rebel MPs fracking was no longer a confidence motion.
"It's like he was getting fucked and then shouting he wanted his virginity back. As a good Catholic, he should know that's not possible."
Tory MP Charles Walker: "I think it is a shambles and a disgrace.…All those people that put Liz Truss in No.10, I hope it was worth it for the ministerial red box...I’ve had enough of talentless people putting their tick in the right box.”
Funnily enough, I was only yesterday talking to a former minister about what a mismatch it would be to have Jeremy Hunt and Braverman in the same Cabinet.
Sounds like he felt her ressurecting the migration cap would be bad for the economy...
'Looking like a kindly jailor in charge of the prison Truss has built for herself, Jeremy Hunt had the air of a man who has allowed his charge out on day release, her ankle tag of new-found fiscal responsibility always on.'
Q: "There must be people who would be better than Liz Truss, aren't there?"
James Cleverly reply is not a denial.
"If there were a unity candidate that everyone agreed upon, we would know that name of that person already. I'm not hearing that unanimity."
I was beginning to think that Truss may be resigning, but Mordaunt said the PM will turn up some time in next 24 hours and this was a non-economic issue.
So, a military/national security reason for her absence?
.@Jeremy_Hunt arrives to big cheers from Tory MPs.
.@trussliz has arrived, conveniently just as Hunt arrives. That national security reason very mysteriously ended just in time for Truss to arrive exactly as its time for Hunt to speak.