Liz Truss says MPs 'love her', despite senior MPs like Gove and Shapps opposing her plans

4 October 2022, 08:58 | Updated: 7 October 2022, 13:38

By Fran Way

@journofran

Liz Truss says her parliamentary colleagues ‘love her’ – despite senior MPs like Michael Gove and Grant Shapps openly opposing her plans.

Speaking about the chancellor’s mini-budget in a comment piece on The Times, Grant Shapps wrote: “Tory governments aren’t supposed to do this kind of thing.”

Days before the government made an abrupt U-turn on the tax rates, Michael Gove also said that cutting tax for highest earners was wrong.

Nick Ferrari quizzed the PM this morning, asking: “How helpful is it having folks such as Michael Gove and Grant Shapps up in Birmingham holding their fringe meetings and giving you the benefit of their views of life?”

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She replied: “Well I love all of my parliamentary colleagues in the Conservative Party and I love hearing their opinions and talking to them and what I want.”

Nick asked her if she thinks the feeling is reciprocated, asking: “they love you?”

She replied: “So they tell me,” adding: “We face massive challenges as a country and we need to get through this economic crisis and this energy crisis, and we need Britain to come out stronger on the other side, and I want to win over hearts and minds in the country, but also amongst my parliamentary colleagues, to make sure that we are able to deliver for the people of Britain.”