Liz Truss again warned that Boris Johnson would not get a seat in his cabinet, despite his warm and uninterrupted words for the prime minister.
“I Boris has been very effective in what he has done to deliver Brexit, deliver the COVID vaccine, motivate the country in our 2019 manifesto,” he said.
“I’m sure he needs to take a break after some difficult years. It’s been a very, very complicated time. “
He added that he had “always been faithful” to Mr Johnson and that he had “done a job”.
Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss said she is “not entirely pleased” with her prospects, despite polls putting her well ahead of rival Rishi Sunak.
Asked if she was convinced she is now in a position to win the race, she said she “fights for each and every vote across the country. “
“I am the user who can grow our economy, reduce taxes, but also unlock all the opportunities of Brexit, and that is what I set out to do,” he told reporters in Norfolk.
“I’m extremely happy to have Ben Wallace. We’ve worked a lot together. He has been a fantastic Secretary of Defense for our country. “
He also asked if he would watch Rishi Sunak’s interview with Andrew Neil on Channel 4 tonight, after refusing to participate.
However, she would celebrate her wedding anniversary instead.
“I’m going to 22 years of marriage to my husband,” she said.
“And each and every day I faint and interview wonderful researchers like you. “
Although Rishi Sunak is lagging behind in the polls, his followers say he continues to give it his all.
Damian Hinds, a former security minister, said Sunak would “travel many miles” in the coming weeks before the deadline for the vote.
“I realize that more and more people are seeing, listening to Rishi Sunak, the more convinced they are,” he told GB News.
“There is a lot of ground to cover. There are all the pushing occasions you mention, there are many occasions in the country.
“Rishi will go many miles in the coming days and weeks. “
Liz Truss asked if she regretted participating in the debates on Conservative leadership, which were heated.
Speaking to Conservative Home, she replied, “I don’t regret it. “
Taking a lighter tone, he also warned the foreign minister that she seemed to be channeling the recommendation of her favorite singer, Taylor Swift, looking to “shake off. “
“Well, absolutely, Taylor is right,” he said.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan spoke about the movements of a network stop in Redbridge in East London.
Khan said he may perceive Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer’s preference for leading MPs to show “collective responsibility” following the sacking of shadow transport minister Sam Tarry on Wednesday after giving media interviews from a picket line at Euston station.
But Khan said the duty for the measures rested firmly with the Conservative administration, which he said hindered negotiations between the railways and the unions.
He said: “The explanation for why the movements are taking a stand is the government’s mismanagement, interfering with the railway corporations that need to make a deal with the unions.
“The messes we face across the country are caused by Keir Starmer or the Labour Party, they are caused by Grant Shapps, Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson and the Conservative government.
“I perceive that the explanation for why Keir Starmer fired Sam Tarry is not because he went to the picket line, it is because he did not adhere to collective duty and as a party that is a government in waiting, Her Majesty’s official opposition, I can perceive why Keir Starmer needs the shadow closet to behave as it would if he were the closet, and that he has a collective duty. “
Meanwhile, Sky News’ Dan Whitehead has met with former deputy leader Chris Pincher to ask him questions about the month’s events.
Pincher resigned from his post last month after being accused of groping two men at a club, but it later emerged that he had already been investigated for his conduct 3 years ago.
The Conservative whip did not fall apart until several days after the allegations were published in the public domain and he now sits as an independent MP.
It was the time when the Tamworth MP in Staffordshire had resigned from the whips’ office, after Conservative candidate Alex Story accused him of making an out-of-place breakthrough in 2017.
Dominic Raab, the last high-ranking politician to pay tribute to Sir Christopher Meyer, the UK’s former ambassador to the US, is a senior politician. He died at the age of 78.
The deputy prime minister tweeted: “I was deeply saddened to be informed of Sir Christopher’s passing.
“He is a formidable diplomat who strengthened special relations between the UK and the US. A man of wonderful insight, wit and wisdom.
“Mine are with Catherine and her loved ones. “
The government said it “regrets” the time taken to identify the decision-making procedure as a questionable effort to evacuate staff from human welfare charities in Afghanistan.
The Foreign Ministry claimed that a “mistake” in internal communication led some staff members to the prime minister’s decision to call Nowzad’s staff to evacuate him.
Downing Street has denied in the past that Boris Johnson played a role in prioritising his withdrawal.
The nowzad charity set up through former Royal Marine Paul “Pen” Farthing, who introduced a high-profile crusade to get his staff and animals out of Kabul when the Taliban swept Afghanistan last year.
In a damning report, the Conservative-led Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) said the charity’s staff had been called to evacuate “at the last minute” when they failed to meet the Foreign Office’s prioritisation criteria “following a mysterious intervention within the government”. “
In the end, the personnel fled Afghanistan to Pakistan on a plane from Kabul.
The charity’s animals were able to depart on a charter flight with M. Farthing, which MEPs say absorbed “significant” resources during the chaotic period.
Referring to the FAC report, in which it is accused of giving “intentionally evasive and intentionally misleading” responses to the commission’s investigations, the Foreign Ministry said that “more care deserved to have been taken” within the power in the way the resolution was taken. communicated to the staff.
“The government regrets that it has taken so long to identify what the resolution procedure is in this case and how the resolution is communicated internally to FCDO (Foreign Office) staff,” he said.
The branch added: “It is that, in this specific case, it merits having taken more care within the FCDO in the way in which the resolution was communicated to the staff.
“It acknowledges that an error in the way the resolution was communicated internally led some FCDO staff members to think that the prime minister had made the resolution. “
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He did not use the precise word, but Ben Wallace’s language suggests that he believes Boris Johnson is the victim of a coup.
The defense secretary and Johnson’s longtime best friend criticized leadership candidate Rishi Sunak for resigning earlier this month and sparking an exodus of ministers.
“What if the interior minister had done that and there had been a terrorist attack?”he said.
The logic does not follow.
Many senior cabinet ministers have resigned in the past for political reasons: Nigel Lawson left Thatcher’s cabinet, Sajid Javid left the post of Treasury leader and Boris Johnson resigned as foreign secretary due to Brexit four years ago.
In fact, when divisions are so great between a prime minister and members of his leadership, ministers still have few options to walk.
However, this means that the suggestion will hurt Mr Sunak.
We have noticed accusations of “disloyalty” and “blows on the back” to the former chancellor in this contest.
Surveys imply that he suffers from a lack of confidence.
It turns out that Liz Truss’s loyalty to the outgoing Prime Minister is playing in her favour in the Downing Street contest.
But conservative members are others from the general public, who have a harsher view of events within the government over the past six months.
The threat to Ms Truss is that staying with Boris Johnson in his hour of need is helping him now but hurting him in the long run.