Rishi Sunak

Senior Conservatives are also said to be discussing replacing the Prime Minister with a joint ticket of Mr Sunak and Penny Mordaunt, according to The Times.

However, the mood among Tory backbenchers is that the party could not justify going through a long-winded six-week election process again. The Times reports that party grandees are in discussions about replacing Ms Truss with a “unity candidate” backed by MPs. One senior Tory told the paper: “A coronation won’t be that hard to arrange. Next time it will be however high it needs to be for only one candidate to clear it.” “I was telling people she was a safe pair of hands, look at her time as international trade secretary, she’s an operator, she’s been around the block. I think everyone feels a bit betrayed by the lack of competence.

According to a survey conducted by 'The Times', nearly half of Tory party members think the party chose the incorrect leader.

Rebels on the backbenches of the UK's governing Conservative Party are on Friday said to be plotting to replace Liz Truss as party leader and prime minister ...

It comes as a YouGov poll for the The Times' found that almost half of Tory party supporters believe the party chose the wrong candidate in the leadership election. It's a plot not to remove a PM but to overturn democracy, she said. [UK: Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss neck and neck after first TV debate clash](/article/international/uk-rishi-sunak-liz-truss-neck-and-neck-after-first-tv-debate-clash-122072600599_1.html) [Second survey shows Liz Truss ahead of rival Rishi Sunak in UK PM race](/article/international/second-survey-shows-liz-truss-ahead-of-rival-rishi-sunak-in-uk-pm-race-122080400710_1.html) [Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? They agitated to remove Boris Johnson and now they will continue plotting until they get their way. Given that Truss technically cannot face a leadership challenge unless until 12 months unless the powerful 1922 Committee of backbench MPs vote to change their rules, MPs are said to be considering the possibility of rallying behind a joint team of Sunak and Mordaunt where the former is the Prime Minister and the latter his Deputy. [Conservative Party](/topic/conservative-party) are on Friday said to be plotting to replace [Liz Truss](/about/who-is-liz-truss) as party leader and prime minister with a so-called unity joint ticket team involving former leadership rival [Rishi Sunak](/about/who-is-rishi-sunak).

As Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng dashes back to the UK for emergency talks with the PM, he might want to keep an eye on which PM he needs to talk to.

[October 13, 2022]

Senior Conservative MPs, including former ministers, are reportedly looking to elect a 'council of elders' to tell Liz Truss to resign as Prime Minister and ...

It's a plot not to remove a PM but to overturn democracy. “They agitated to remove Boris Johnson and now they will continue plotting until they get their way. Next time it will be however high it needs to be for only one candidate to clear it.” It comes as the latest polls suggest that more than fifty percent of respondents said they would support a plot to remove the current Prime Minister. “One of [the senior Conservatives] said that ‘you have got to do this cleanly. [Liz Truss](/latest/liz-truss) with the second and third-place finishers in the Tory leadership contest is “fraught with difficulty”.

NADINE Dorries has lashed out at senior Tories reportedly exploring the possibility of replacing Prime Minister Liz Truss with a joint ticket of…

[BBC](https://www.thenational.scot/news/media-and-the-bbc/). [Commons](https://www.thenational.scot/politics/westminster/) Treasury Committee, said it was essential that the Government acted decisively if it was to restore confidence. [some Tory sources have suggested that a rule change could see the threshold for no-confidence letters met within "hours"](https://www.thenational.scot/news/23045000.liz-truss-face-no-confidence-vote-mps-sulphurous-following-1922/) - such is the level of anger among her party. [Labour](https://www.thenational.scot/politics/labour/) could be set to win a number of so-called "Blue Wall" safe Tory seats at the next election, as Truss's leadership is rated poorly by the public amid economic turmoil sparked by the disastrous mini budget. [Conservative](https://www.thenational.scot/politics/tories/) Home website editor, said the pair had been floated as replacements, the former culture secretary accused scheming Tories of trying to “overturn democracy”. [Tories](https://www.thenational.scot/politics/tories/) reportedly exploring the possibility of replacing Prime Minister Liz Truss with a joint ticket of Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt.

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak has spoken to leadership rival Penny Mordaunt with prime minister's position still under threat, The National can disclose.

“You could get a move on her at that point but they will have to move fast as there really is not much time to repair the roof before the next election. There’s lots of febrile stuff but the problem is there’s no focus.” “They are under-gunned in Downing Street and no one knows what’s going on.” “This will slash it right down to a couple of contenders. Other MPs believe that another “clean pair of hands” candidate could emerge, potentially untainted by association with Ms Truss and regarded as sensible. As a result, she is now regarded as a ‘flight risk’ on resigning from government.”

Rebels on the backbenches of the UK's governing Conservative Party are said to be plotting to replace Liz Truss as party leader and Prime Minister with a ...

"Those absurdly called grandee MPs (men) agitating to remove Liz Truss are all Sunak supporters. It's a plot not to remove a PM but to overturn democracy," she said. However, former prime minister Boris Johnson loyalists have condemned such plotting as anti-democratic by disgruntled Rishi Sunak backers.