REPORT: Tories Already Plotting To Oust PM Liz Truss

The Independent reports:

Conservative MPs are already plotting to replace Liz Truss as party leader on account of her disastrous first month in office, a senior Tory has said.

Paul Goodman, the editor of the influential Conservative Home website, said Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt were among MPs being tapped as possible replacements for the prime minister. It comes after Ms Truss’s first budget in office saw the pound tank and interest rates on government and mortgage debt surge.

A poll released on Wednesday of Tory heartland seats in the south of England saw Labour capturing swathes of the party’s safe ‘blue wall’ seats, while national polls but Ms Truss’s party twenty to thirty points behind the opposition.

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One Tory *who backed Truss* from round 1 this summer said she’d be out by Christmas. Talking about Sunak and Mordaunt, he added: “If they came to some agreement … that would get the Tory party back on track and I think we would have a real hope of winning next time.”

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) October 13, 2022

? Liz Truss is facing a Tory rebel plot to oust her as Prime Minister, a former MP has said https://t.co/H7c7Ds2kIB

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) October 13, 2022

Coup-plotting Conservative MPs forming a circular firing squad. Removing @trussliz would be a victory for the Left, and an act of Hara-Kiri by the Tory Party. https://t.co/0Meu2KWSXw

— Nile Gardiner (@NileGardiner) October 13, 2022

Yesterday the talk amongst Tory MPs was whether or not Liz Truss should go. Today it’s shifted to how quickly she goes, what’s the smoothest mechanism and who do they replace her with.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) October 13, 2022