The Prime Minister has addressed an influential group of Conservative Party MPs at a meeting tonight (Wednesday). Liz Truss was greeted with the customary banging of desks when she arrived to address the backbench 1922 Committee at Westminster.
Ms Truss told the meeting that small businesses would have faced “devastation” if the Government had not acted to cap energy prices, aides said. Following the meeting, few MPs wanted to speak to waiting journalists, with one saying simply “the Prime Minister spoke to us”, while another said only “it happened”.
It is the first time the PM has addressed the group of backbench Tory MPs since the mini-Budget. The meeting was chaired by executive member William Wragg as Sir Graham Brady was not in attendance.
