Jeremy Hunt tells @BBCr4today:

“We have some very difficult decisions ahead. Difficult decisions on spending which is not going to rise as much as people hope. I’m going to ask all government departments to find efficiency savings.” He doesn’t rule out cuts to the NHS budget and health spending: “We are going to ask all departments to find efficiencies.”

One of Truss’s supporters says "that was the worst press conference I have seen in a decade and a half."

A Tory MP says: “This was her plan. The problem with all of this is she’s the problem not the chancellor.”

bbc.in/3EHXjhM Former minister tells me people shouldn’t say there can’t be a leadership race because the electorate won’t forgive:

“The electorate aren’t going to forgive us anyway. It’s like being told by a doctor you’ve got 8 months to live or 12 months to live. You’re still going to die.”

It’s safe to say privately, and in some cases publicly, there’s a Tory party split on lifting the fracking ban and reviewing the acceptable seismic threshold on fracking sites.

Here’s what some Tory MPs and now-cabinet ministers have said about it in the past👇 The now chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng said in March that lifting the ban would take “up to a decade” to extract sufficient volumes, at a “high cost”, and no amount of shale gas would lower the European gas price.

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💥New: In a (literal) seismic policy shift, the government plans to lift the fracking ban tomorrow by reviewing the level of seismic activity – earthquakes – allowed at sites.

Jacob Rees-Mogg tells BBC Newsnight the current level allowed, ~0.5 on the Richter scale, is 'too low.' He said it was too early to confirm what the new level would be.

Labour tonight accuse the government of 'shifting the goalposts' on safety. They argue fracking would not bring down the cost of gas and energy, be good for the climate, or be popular with the public.

New: Liz Truss has "ruled out" more direct support to everyone to help with energy bills, sources close to her tell me.

Yesterday her rival Rishi Sunak said the gov "must provide some direct support to everyone." But further tax cuts & boosting welfare are "still on the table." This means under a Truss gov we wouldn't expect to see packages like the £400 payment that all households are getting this Autumn. As per reports today, I understand as well as National Insurance cuts other cuts like ones to VAT are not 'off the table' - nothing confirmed though.

🚨 Exclusive: Boris Johnson was made aware of a formal complaint about Chris Pincher's "inappropriate behaviour" while Mr Pincher was a Foreign Office minister from 2019-20, the BBC News can reveal.

More from me on BBC News at 10 tonight 📺

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… This raises fresh questions about why Mr Pincher was appointed earlier this year as a deputy chief whip when Boris Johnson had knowledge of these allegations.

They led to a *formal government process*, which ended in a report confirming misconduct.

🚨 New: Tory MP tells me they personally raised concerns about Mr Pincher’s behaviour to senior figures in No10 and the Conservative Party - including Chief Whip Chris Heaton-Harris, Nigel Adams, government whips and one of the prime minister’s top advisers Ben Gascoigne. Speaking about raising concerns, they said: “Loads [of us] did when he was in frame for Chief Whip and he never got it. There were concerns, none of us had proof we could use. Pincher should have the whip suspended and a by-election.”

Deputy Chief Whip Chris Pincher resigns saying he drank “far too much” and embarrassed himself and other people last night. Understand he was drinking at the Tory private members club - the Carlton Club. Behaviour was witnessed by a number of other Tories. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

New: Downing St tonight (on calls from the Defence Secretary for an increase to defence spending) say they can't "re-write the budget in mid-June", and that the chancellor has repeatedly warned ministers in cabinet they can't reopen spending rounds. They don't deny teams spoke with Defence, regarding Ben Wallace's speech where he called for defence spending to be boosted beyond 2% of GDP, but deny it was an 'intervention' to water down some lines - instead saying all ministerial speeches get run by No10.

🚨A flavour of some reaction from Tory MPs today:

One elected 2019: "Last night I was getting emails into my inbox every minute from Tory activists & Tory voters. Out of 250 emails I received yesterday, only 5 said leave Boris Johnson alone. The rest were saying his time is up." One senior Tory said they have had 200+angry emails against the PM vs 5 in support, some from party members and adds: "Many colleagues now believe Boris won’t be leader at next general election...for many of us this feels terminal."

A senior Labour MP has told the BBC she is frustrated with the “oxygen” that the row over Rosie Duffield’s views on transgender issues was getting.

She added: "It's all the same arguments as the gay panic in the 80s rehashed."

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… She said: "It's being used as a wedge issue despite it affecting a tiny number of people overall, and making almost no difference whatsoever to wider society who will be unaffected just as they're unaffected by whether gay people can get married, teach in schools."