The Armed Forces minister suggested Prime Minister Boris Johnson may have been let down by his staff as he warned Conservative colleagues to keep 'cool heads'.
The PM is engaged in a battle for political survival and he faces the prospect of another bruising Prime Minister's Questions at noon today (Wednesday, January 19) as well as a possible leadership challenge.
Minister James Heappey, MP for Wells in Somerset, told Times Radio: “If you are going through a day in which you are having calls with world leaders, meetings on national security, meetings on 10 different policy areas, all of those meetings come and go in the blink of an eye, you rely utterly on the team around you to make sure that you are properly briefed and to have your back around what it is that they put in your diary.
