{"id":130064,"date":"2022-09-29T21:02:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-do-tory-mps-think-of-liz-truss-a-toxic-bomb-that-could-sink-the-party-katy-balls\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T21:09:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:09:44","slug":"what-do-tory-mps-think-of-liz-truss-a-toxic-bomb-that-could-sink-the-party-katy-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-do-tory-mps-think-of-liz-truss-a-toxic-bomb-that-could-sink-the-party-katy-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"What do Tory MPs think of Liz Truss? A \u2018toxic bomb\u2019 that could sink the party | Katy Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLess than a month in, the PM\u2019s political capital is draining away. And next week\u2019s party conference is unlikely to offer any reliefOf all the dire numbers that Tory MPs have been confronted with this week, one has stuck in their mind: 17. It\u2019s the size of Labour\u2019s poll lead, according to the latest YouGov poll. It\u2019s sparked panic in the cabinet and among MPs. One minister with a majority of more than 10,000 frets that they would lose their seat with these numbers. What worries them even more is that this poll was taken before the full economic fallout from the mini-budget became clear. What will the numbers be once homeowners have realised what rising interest rates mean for their mortgage payments?The difference between this situation and the scandals that dominated Boris Johnson\u2019s government is that it will have immediate and painful consequences for swaths of voters. \u201cIt goes well beyond Westminster,\u201d says a MP from the 2015 intake. Tory MPs report calls from constituents they rarely hear from who are worried they will not be able to pay their mortgage. \u201cThey\u2019ve broken the economy and the party,\u201d argues a former minister who backed Rishi Sunak.Katy Balls is the Spectator\u2019s deputy political editor Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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