Inside the Tory civil war: MPs mock Sunak's 'Kumbaya' away day, accuse Truss of 'trashing the brand', and deride Johnson's premiership: 'most of it was bollocks'
Backers of Ms Truss are more conciliatory, knowing that their preferred leader botched her chance to implement her own policy agenda, but they are still keen on a change in direction and regard her 4,000-word Sunday Telegraph article as an opening shot in the comeback of her free-market ideology within the party.
He added: “It is an absurd argument for any Conservative even to conceive of that somehow raising taxes is morally right. It’s the argument that we had back in the early 80s and which I thought had been put to bed. For some of those loyal to the current leader, however, the noises from his predecessors are only destabilising the political situation. One veteran MP said: “The Conservatives have been in power for a very long time, and when it went wrong under Liz, the Conservative brand took a knock, they trashed the brand.
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