Can sacking Kwasi Kwarteng really save Liz Truss’s premiership? In the past few minutes, the chancellor has had a meeting with the Prime Minister – and he has now left the government.
Tory MPs have spent the past week doing a lot of writing. The first thing many of them have been writing is a letter to Sir Graham Brady calling for a vote of no confidence. Even though the rules currently don’t allow one for a year after the election of a new leader, those who’ve sent their missives expect that he will reach a point where he has to tell the Prime Minister there would be a vote if it weren’t for that rule – and that the time has come to do something.
These are changes a prime minister is often urged to make in the mid-term, not after only a few weeks in the job
The second bit of writing is a list of things Truss can do to save her skin.
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