A Tory MP has submitted a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister today (Wednesday) saying he cannot tell his constituents that “they should support our great party”. William Wragg told MPs in the Commons that he would like to vote with Labour to ban fracking because he is opposed to it.
However, because the vote is being treated as a “confidence motion” in Liz Truss’s embattled Government, Mr Wragg, who is vice chairman of the influential committee of Tory backbenchers, decided not to because he would lose the whip and his letter of no confidence in the PM would “fall”. He said he has submitted the letter to 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady today.
Mr Wragg, the MP for Hazel Grove in Stockport, went on to say that he was “personally ashamed” by what occurred after the mini-budget. “The lack of foresight by senior members of the Government, I cannot easily forgive,” he added.
