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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Aletha Adu

Tory peer Baroness Morrissey forced to quit after branding Boris Johnson a 'liability'

A Tory peer has been forced out of her Foreign Office role after branding Boris Johnson a "liability" and urging him to step down.

Baroness Morrissey said the Prime Minister had shown no contrition after he survived a vote of no confidence on Monday, despite 148 Tory MPs voting for him leave No10.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was understood to have been outraged by the peer's comments and instructed the FCDO's top civil servant Sir Philip Barton to sack her.

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