Full exchange: Starmer grills Truss over 40-year inflation high and pensions triple lock
Liz Truss is currently meeting with the chair of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservatives Sir Graham Brady as pressure mounts on the prime minister to resign.
Tory MPs are openly revolting against the prime minister as one rebel said she has only 12 hours to save her job.
Conservative MP Simon Hoare said Thursday and Friday are “crunch days” for the government.
Lord David Frost, a former Brexit minister who backed Truss for PM, is the latest Tory to call for the prime minister go.
He said the party was going in “completely the wrong direction.”
In extraordinary scenes at Westminster, cabinet ministers Therese Coffey and Jacob Rees-Mogg were among a group of senior Tories accused of pressuring colleagues to go into the “no” lobby, with Labour former minister Chris Bryant saying some MPs had been “physically manhandled into another lobby and being bullied”.
