the boris different than towards the end of the borisjohnson premiership when the borisjohnson premiership when the party the borisjohnson premiership when the party was at a state of meltdown. now with liz truss as the time is meltdown. now with liz truss as the time is reporting is determined it seems time is reporting is determined it seems to time is reporting is determined it seems to improve relations with tory mps seems to improve relations with tory mps one seems to improve relations with tory mps. 0ne complaint of tory mps when you speak mps. 0ne complaint of tory mps when you speak to them privately, or publicly, you speak to them privately, or publicly, is you speak to them privately, or publicly, is when you became promised publicly, is when you became promised her she did not do enough to unify promised her she did not do enough to unify the promised her she did not do enough to unify the party. the allegation is that to unify the party. the allegatio
led to things like the pound reaching that record low the other day. on conservative mps, some of whom backed a totally different economic plan in liz truss s rishi sunak over the summer. and on the public as well. remember, we have had a series of polls over the last couple of days since that mini budget suggesting that the public have swayed more towards labour and they have in summer 2001. so the context for this conference is certainly an incredibly interesting one but difficult for the prime minister and chancellor, he will very much need to convince both conservative mps and their members here that they have a plan to lead them through this. the membership voted for liz them through this. the membership voted for liz truss, them through this. the membership voted for liz truss, albeit them through this. the membership voted for liz truss, albeit her - voted for liz truss, albeit her margin of victory was smaller than in previous leadership contests, over rishi sunak the for
leadership contests over rishi sunak, the former chancellor whose resignation helped bring down boris johnson. the choice between their economic visions could not have been more stark, could it? they plumped for liz truss, now that economic vision looks in some difficulty, and as you say, somehow, she has got to convince the party bear and the public and the investors worldwide that the plan will work. that s right, and there are certainly mixed views about how to do this, but i think the big theme that i m picking up from speaking to conservative members but also mps is a need for communication. speaking to some of her supporters, some of them are expressing surprise that there is surprise about the plans that liz truss has announced, given, as you say, that these were widely trailed throughout her campaign. for example, they mentioned that she had already outlined in lots of detail that she would cut that rise to national insurance and that plan
we really want to go to conference under the circumstances? is it too early for that kind of narrative? what are you hearing push of course, three weeks into the new administration, that leadership contests precipitated by the turbulent removal of borisjohnson turbulent removal of boris johnson and turbulent removal of borisjohnson and they are aware this is a very new administration but no one can deny the uncertainty and events that transpired since the budget was delivered last friday there s a definitely palpable sense of anxiety, nervousness to say the least among many tory mps and some are far more critical talking about ineptitude and people have abuse the words like reckless and inept, talking about dogma, other considerations that i don t think there s a sense of any move towards removing the chancellor or seeking to pressurise prime minister to remove the chancellor or talk about
suggest liz truss is the favourite with only a few weeks left to run in the context, rishi sunak himself has conceded that he does appear to be the underdog at the moment. let s remember quite often in leadership contests like mess when a new prime minister comes in, it is the people who were the loudest cheer leaders who were the loudest cheer leaders who form their top team as part of the cabinet. there may be calculation at play by robert buckland who was a cabinet minister under borisjohnson who lost a job and has now come back into the cabinet, he perhaps would like to stay there, perhaps thinks liz truss could be the next prime minister and therefore has decided to throw in his lot with her. those are not reasons he gives. he says it has been a decision based on human right legislation on her position on the economy, we have not had a response from rishi sunak s team to one of him losing his highest profile backers. ., ~ him losing his highest profile backers. ., ,, , ., him losi