Some MPs accuse former prime minister of damaging the party with her comeback weeks before budget
Conservative infighting before next month’s budget has intensified as allies of Liz Truss repeated their calls for sweeping tax cuts but other MPs accused the former prime minister of damaging the party with her comeback.
With just weeks until Jeremy Hunt announces his first budget, Tory MPs argued in public about how to rescue the party’s reputation with voters, as an MRP (multilevel regression and post-stratification) poll showed the Conservatives could be heading for near-wipeout at the next election.
