Thread by @paulwaugh

As Shapps steps up, Liz Truss is more than ever a prisoner of her Cabinet - not the leader of it.

After an extraordinary day, tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox

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'The real problem is that Truss has fracked her party as much as she’s fracked the country.'

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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.”

Steve Baker to @TimesRadio: "In the course of doing this media round, which I was asked to do by No10, I did speak with No10. And they invited me to say that the Prime Minister would like to be able to reappoint Suella in the new year."

Now No10 says Chief Whip and Deputy "remain in post".
They've un-resigned. Kinda.
(Having apparently told their colleagues they'd had enough)

Meanwhile, on the BBC Ten O'clock News a pensioner says "butter is a luxury now".

Tonight the Deputy Prime Minister said the fracking vote was "a great victory".
Confirmation of the verdict of one Tory MP, who said Coffey is "spending more time as chief whip than in DHSC"?

Here's my piece from yesterday:

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Great line on @BBCNewsnight from a young guy in Sunderland: "You can't treat mortgages like Prime Ministers."

And his partner Ellie, a midwife, says maternity is already understaffed so any more public spending cuts would make it worse.

Clip here: