earlier, i spoke to andrew gimson from the website conservative home, and also author of book that looks at borisjohnson s time in number 10, and he gave us his analysis on the first few weeks of liz truss s premiership. there are many other backbenchers who we know think the same as crispin blunt, and they are the people who hold herfate in their hands. if the tory tribe says their chief has become a liability, then they will slay her. do you think that is what will happen now, it s inevitable that she will go in the short term, she will not be able to see this party through to the next general election? it s her duty to stay as a caretaker until the party decide with whom they will replace the because, although things are bad at the moment, they could be worse, if a punch up were to develop, if she were to go, more or less immediately, and there was then a fight for
hello. this is bbc news. more now on our main story the new chancellor, jeremy hunt, has asked conservative mps to get behind the prime minister liz truss. he s insisted that she remains in charge of the government, and said the country needed stability, not another protracted leadership campaign . earlier, i spoke to andrew gimson from the website conservative home and also author of book that looks at boris johnson s time in number10. and he gave us his analysis on the first few weeks of liz truss s premiership. there are many other backbenchers who we know think the same as crispin blunt, and they are the people who hold herfate in their hands. if the tory tribe says their chief has become a liability, then they will slay her.
candidate be right now? if there is only one person willing to take it on, it would be a simple matter, but i m not sure that is the case, people have talked about rishi sunak and penny morden forming a joint ticket but that depends on one of them agreeing to be the deputy for the other and i m not sure either of them are too clear on that, and then of course there may be other crown princes or princesses that want a crack the leadership once again, just as they did in the summer. for a while they seemed to be popular among tory mps and indeed some members, so it might be hard to agree on a coronation, but there are other ways of doing it, even if several people decide that they want to go for it. let s get more on this from the conservative home s andrew gimson, author of borisjohnson: the rise and fall of a troublemaker at number 10. you know plenty about what it is to