Being sacked by Rishi Sunak after 49 days in the cabinet was “brutal”, a top Tory has said.
Kit Malthouse was briefly Education Secretary while Liz Truss was Prime Minister - but said there was no point trying to sugar-coat his exit from the top team.
And he slammed the decision to let MPs claim Christmas parties on expenses, saying any member who chose to do so would be “out of their mind.”
