discredited against industry and would want to go with their partners but they cannot do that. i would want to go with their partners but they cannot do that. but they cannot do that. i wonder if ou think but they cannot do that. i wonder if you think something but they cannot do that. i wonder if you think something is but they cannot do that. i wonder if you think something is shifting i you think something is shifting within the sport because i do not know enough about football and the politics of football to understand whether this is new but i get a sense that the impression at least that we are heeling from a lot more professional footballers at hearing from a lot more professional footballers at the highest level about human rights questions, gay rights questions and there is a greater willingness for people to express a personal opinion and kinda put their head above the parapet. do you get a sense things changing in the sport that perhaps, for a gay man or a gay woman
no, i think the game is up, and it s now a question as to how the succession is managed. well, if the game is up for, how could that succession be managed? i mean, let me put it bluntly, to begin with, how would you get rid of him? well, george was speaking to some of the mechanisms earlier. if there is a such a weight of opinion in the parliamentary party that she we have to have a change, then it will be affected, exactly how it s done and exactly under what mechanism. a short time, ago i spoke to our political correspondent, peter saull, about what this development means for the pm s chances of keeping a grip on her party. crispin blunt, perhaps not a household name, but pretty well respected figure on the conservative backbenches, has said effectively the time is up. it s a question of when, not if the new prime minister goes. this isjust one person, i should say, who s publicly put their head above the parapet. now we know privately there are other conservative mps who are of a si
when, not if. this is one person that has publicly put their head above the parapet, privately, there are other conservative mps of a similar mindset. if you cast your mind back to when borisjohnson was in charge, there was a steady trickle of individuals who came out and said, we no longer think the prime minister s position was untenable, questions about letters going into the 1922 committee, different situation now because they can t act in the same way, they can t act in the same way, they can t bring about another confidence vote for another 11 months. there is no obvious mechanism at this stage but if it were to be the case that crispin blunt prompts a groundswell of conservatives coming out and saying the same thing, then it would increasingly look like liz truss has lost the confidence of her party, but by no means we are at that stage yet, a lot of conservatives stressing they still have confidence in her, they will probably give her
as a really humiliating u turn by the prime minister and the chancellor. what a difference 24 hours makes in politics. it was just yesterday morning that liz truss was insisting on the bbc that this policy wasn t going to bejunked. but after she left that interview something changed. there was a feeling within government that this policy was increasingly becoming unsellable, a growing number of conservative mps were prepared to put their heads above the parapet and say, they didn t support it. a growing number of people work including the prime ministerjust of people work including the prime minister just wouldn t be of people work including the prime ministerjust wouldn t be able to get these plans through parliament. so over the course of yesterday afternoon there were a series of crisis talks between the prime minister and the chancellor and by late evening, they had decided this policy was dead. there is no doubt this is damaging for the government.