A Tory MP has launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Liz Truss's economic policies, claiming the Government has 'treated the whole country as kind of laboratory mice on which to carry out ultra free market experiments'.
Robert Halfon, the Conservative MP for Harlow, called for a 'dramatic reset' after U-turns in Kwasi Kwarteng's so-called mini-budget followed the appointment of a new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt. And he said the Government needed to apologise for the financial chaos of recent weeks.
Mr Halfon stopped short of calling on Liz Truss to quit as Prime Minister, but pointed to 'one horror show after another'. And he didn't deny that some of his Tory colleagues were plotting to remove her from Downing Street, saying they were 'unhappy with what is going on' and the party was 'haemorrhaging' at the polls.
