Prime minister says he will not make a ‘premature decision’ about where the high speed rail line will end
Yesterday Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak’s predecessor, staged a packed rally at the Tory conference where she and three colleagues – Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Dame Priti Patel and Ranil Jayawardena – made the case for immediate tax cuts.
At the event the host, the GB News presenter Liam Halligan, pointed out that there are now 60 Conservative MPs who back these ideas because they are members of her Conservative Growth Group. That was about the size of Rishi Sunak’s majority, he pointed out (the Commons says Sunak currently has a working majority of 60), and it meant that potentially they could vote down budget measures if they allied with the opposition. Aubrey Allegretti writes about that here.
No, not at all. Lots of Conservatives here. I think the mood is great. People are excited about the things we’re doing.
