Latest updates: James Heappey, defence minister, also claims that Truss deserves credit for admitting she made mistake
Here are some more lines from James Heappey’s morning interview round on the Tory leadership crisis.
Heappey, a defence minister, said Liz Truss could not afford to make any more mistakes. Asked how many more errors she could make, he told Sky News: “I suspect given how skittish our politics are at the moment, not very many,” he said. Pressed how many, he said: “I don’t think there’s the opportunity to make any more mistakes.”
He claimed he thought Truss was doing a good job. He said:
She’s very much our prime minister and for what it’s worth I think she’s doing a good job.
He claimed that the “vast majority” of Tory MPs did not want to see Truss replaced as leader. He said:
There are a few colleagues in parliament who are irreconcilable and the government needs to work to bring them back into the fold as best we can.
But the vast majority of colleagues recognise that after the last few months – indeed after the last year when we’ve been going through all of the angst over Boris Johnson, which has divided our party deeply – what we cannot do is reverse the decision of a leadership election that we’ve literally only just completed.
Continue reading…Latest updates: James Heappey, defence minister, also claims that Truss deserves credit for admitting she made mistakeHere are some more lines from James Heappey’s morning interview round on the Tory leadership crisis.Heappey, a defence minister, said Liz Truss could not afford to make any more mistakes. Asked how many more errors she could make, he told Sky News: “I suspect given how skittish our politics are at the moment, not very many,” he said. Pressed how many, he said: “I don’t think there’s the opportunity to make any more mistakes.”He claimed he thought Truss was doing a good job. He said:She’s very much our prime minister and for what it’s worth I think she’s doing a good job.He claimed that the “vast majority” of Tory MPs did not want to see Truss replaced as leader. He said:There are a few colleagues in parliament who are irreconcilable and the government needs to work to bring them back into the fold as best we can.But the vast majority of colleagues recognise that after the last few months – indeed after the last year when we’ve been going through all of the angst over Boris Johnson, which has divided our party deeply – what we cannot do is reverse the decision of a leadership election that we’ve literally only just completed. Continue reading…