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Oct 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
PODCAST: #PMQsUnpacked

Stop sniggering at the back…

We ⏯ the Commons action live to analyse Truss vs Starmer in real time.

Including @patrickkmaguire doing impressions.

🎧LISTEN pod.fo/e/1484ce
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Oct 21
The spinners are doing a great job, and lazy hacks and stenographers are doing their best.

But if I was a self-styled election winning machine, who would inevitably be held aloft by his colleagues, I’d like to have persuaded more than 1 in 10 of them to come out publicly by now
It’s *almost* as if it’s only been 3 months since he was told that two-thirds of his colleagues were ready to vote no confidence in him, after lying about an alleged sex pest, breaking the law and humiliating them all.

Vote winner:
66% incompetent
76% untrustworthy
54% weak
👀
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Oct 20
💥NOW ON @TimesRadio

Conservative MP Henry Smith tells me that the Tory Party "can't delay" in removing Liz Truss as Prime Minister.

"I think we need new leadership..."
Henry Smith: "In a time of uncertainty, we need solid leadership and I'm afraid I'm very sorry to say that has been distinctly lacking from Downing Street in the last several weeks...
Henry Smith: "I think she should do the honourable thing and say that her premiership has made the wrong calls not just once or twice, but consistently since coming into office almost two months ago. And that now it's time for strong leadership to come back to this country...
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Oct 19
Tory MPs are in meltdown…

“This is terminal decay,” one tells me.
One senior Tory says it was whips office pushing the “confidence vote” issue.

But says it will have been Rees-Mogg who pushed the manifesto-breaking fracking policy into the amendment.

“The chief whip has gone to protect Rees-Mogg”
Another Tory MP: “It’s like a zoo of hungry wild animals”
Read 8 tweets
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Oct 19
💥

Tory MP Steve Double tells me on @TimesRadio that Liz Truss's position is "increasingly untenable" and she will have to "consider her position"
Tory MP Steve Double on @TimesRadio:

“I think her position is becoming increasingly untenable. We've seen a complete reversal of just about everything she stood for in her leadership election campaign….
“ I think many of us are asking exactly what does Liz Truss now believe and stand for because she seems to have abandoned virtually everything that she told us she was about. I think she is absolutely the last chance saloon…
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Oct 4
💥 Cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt tells me #TimesRadio benefits SHOULD rise with inflation: “I’ve always supported - whether it’s pensions, whether it’s our welfare system - keeping pace with inflation. It makes sense to do so. That’s what I voted for before.” 1/4
Mordaunt: “We want to make sure that people are looked after and that people can pay their bills. We are not about trying to help people with one hand and take away with another.”

First cabinet minister to go public to oppose the idea of not uprating benefits with inflation 2/4
Mordaunt also calls for a return to proper cabinet after 45p tax row.

“She (Truss) wants cabinet to be a forum where we can really kick the tyres on policy, where we can have frank discussions that aren’t leaked. It should be consultative. We should take decisions together.” 3/4
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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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