Rishi Sunak will lead the Tories into the subsequent common election regardless of whispers of rebellious MP plotting to oust him from No10, a Cabinet Minister has insisted.
Mark Harper, the Transport Secretary, stated “politics is a team game” and advised MPs to “have some confidence” when grilled on his message to mutinous colleagues after a torrid week. The Cabinet Minister additionally claimed the Conservatives will win the subsequent common election regardless of trailing Labour within the nationwide polls and dealing with a 1997-style wipeout.
Asked by Sky News’s Trevor Phillips whether or not Mr Sunak will nonetheless be chief of the Tories when the election is lastly known as, he replied: “Yes he will. And he will take us into that election and he will set out very clearly that we’re a Government with a plan. I’m going to be supporting him all the way through and I’m confident that my colleagues will.”
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With Tory MPs more and more anxious about shedding the seats on the election, the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph recommended MPs on the correct of the social gathering met moderates this week to debate uniting behind Penny Mordaunt if the Prime Minister faces a no-confidence vote.
Tory former minister Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who has publicly backed putting in a brand new chief earlier than the nation goes to the polls, denied that right-wing Tory MPs had been coalescing round Ms Mordaunt.
Quizzed about stories of MPs eager to dump Mr Sunak and substitute him earlier than the election with the Commons chief, Mr Harper replied: “What I would say to all of my colleagues is this: I spend my time as Transport Secretary focusing on doing what I think is the right thing for the country, making decisions that I think are sensible. That is the approach that the PM takes as well. He focuses on making the right decisions.”
And pressed on the PM “bottling” a snap common election in May the senior minister additionally claimed discuss of an early vote was “nonsense” regardless of the PM not explicitly ruling it out.
The Transport Secretary stated: “The PM made it quite clear at the beginning of the year that his working assumption was the election was going to be at the end of the year. So all this sort of froth we’ve had about an election being in May was always nonsense frankly, and he made that clear at the beginning of the year.”