Prime minister at risk of mass exodus of ministers as home secretary forced to resign
Liz Truss’s beleaguered government appeared at risk of collapse on Wednesday asBraverman’s dramatic departure, coming just five days after Truss sacked her chancellor,, risks the prime minister experiencing the sort of mass exodus of ministers that forced Boris Johnson to quit.
In a cursory reply, Truss told Braverman: “I accept your resignation and respect the decision you have made.”, the former transport secretary who was a leading supporter of Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership race.The change of personnel in the second of the four great offices of state came on a frantic day which also saw a series of Tory MPs, including Truss’s net zero tsar, rebel in a fracking vote, another, and a mauling from Keir Starmer at prime minister’s questions.
The official narrative for her resignation was that she was removed for sharing an official document from her personal email to a fellow MP, a serious breach of ministerial rules. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight, he added: “Let’s not beat around the bush here. And I expect the prime minister to resign very soon because she’s not up to her job either ... I will shed no tears for either of them.”
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