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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti

Rishi Sunak’s Commons majority in peril as 60 Tories join Liz Truss group

Liz Truss
Truss has told the Conservative conference that the Tories are no longer the party of business. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Sixty Conservative MPs have joined Liz Truss’s Growth Group, imperilling the government’s majority in parliament, as Rishi Sunak was warned by former cabinet ministers “we cannot accept the status quo”.

At a packed fringe meeting during the Conservative party conference, Truss and her supporters held a rally where they pushed for the chancellor to cut corporation tax, build 500,000 new homes and resume fracking to cut energy bills.

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