– This is about to become the biggest political crisis since the Second World War. It is the renowned historian Anthony Seldon who writes this on Twitter today, and adds: – Suez in 1956 was bad, but a credible prime minister quickly took over and things returned to normal. In 1972–74, the prime minister had the government college at his back. Who now? Where now? A screenshot of historian Anthony Seldon’s remarks. Photo: Screenshot from Twitter The ongoing political drama in the UK hit a preliminary low last night. The number two minister had just resigned, and at the same time delivered strong criticism of the government she left and Liz Truss’s leadership. Then the parliament was to vote on a matter that dealt with the extraction of shale gas. It developed into a political drama in which the Conservative ruling party disintegrated before the eyes of television viewers who could not believe what they were seeing and hearing. – A shame. – Completely unheard of. – Chaos. – Irresponsible. The words did not come from the opposition. Nor from political commentators. They came from Conservative politicians in the British Parliament and describe their own party. Their own government and its leader Liz Truss. Politicians are said to have cried when Parliamentarians told both in the House of Commons and to the British media yesterday about ministers who allegedly pushed conservative politicians into the voting booth to force them to vote as the government wanted during the vote yesterday. There were reports of Conservative MPs hiding in toilets crying. Then rumors began to swirl that yet another member of the government had resigned. Ministers could neither confirm nor deny this, because they themselves did not know what the situation was. Eventually came the denial. The party’s chief whip is still in the job. There are often protests outside the British Parliament. Now the chaos is even greater inside. Photo: HENRY NICHOLLS / Reuters The government won the vote, but the chaos was complete. At the time of writing, 14 Conservative MPs have gone public with demands that Truss resign. The number is rapidly increasing. – The situation is indefensible. We need to make changes today to stop this chaos,” Conservative MP Crispin Blunt told the BBC this morning. Another, Simon Hoare, says Truss has 12 hours to “turn the ship around”. – The disturbing thing is that there is no plan. It is a battle from day to day, he says. And a third, Charles Walker, fears that up to two hundred Conservative MPs will withdraw from politics out of respect for the electorate. – I really shouldn’t say this, but I hope the people who gave Liz Truss the job as prime minister think it’s worth it. I hope it was worth sitting around the government table, because the damage they have done to our party is exceptional. I’ve had enough of talentless people who don’t act in the country’s interest, but out of personal interest. He himself is among those who give up. Few, intense weeks as Prime Minister It is only six and a half weeks since Liz Truss became Prime Minister. She was elected by members of the Conservative Party after Boris Johnson resigned. Suella Braverman lasted just 43 days in the job as Liz Truss’ Home Secretary. In her resignation letter, she wrote about concerns about the government’s direction and broken promises. Photo: Kin Cheung / AP But it may already seem a long time since “partygate” and “Boris the clown” upset Westminster. The death of the Queen, tax cuts that drove the pound into the basement, replacement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, total turnaround of the economic policy, replacement of the Home Secretary and thus this chaos surrounding voting last night. Liz Truss has not had a good start. Now most things indicate that it is coming to an end. Yesterday Liz Truss defended herself in Parliament. – I am someone who fights, not someone who gives up, was the message then. But the discussion has long since started about who can take over and how the party can get rid of her. Grant Shapps admitted the government is in trouble as he was last night appointed as the new Home Secretary. Photo: TOBY MELVILLE / Reuters The rules give Truss a 12-month conservation period. It is being discussed to change these, but for now it is she who has to choose to leave. She has so far refused to do so. But the pressure is increasing minute by minute. The Conservative Party’s Dilemma The party’s problem is that it has no obvious heir. Nor had it when Truss was elected Prime Minister in September. Therefore, the match was even and the victory anything but convincing. Party members at the time still preferred Boris Johnson to both Liz Truss and rival Rishi Sunak. They still do when they are asked the question in opinion polls. But now more than half of them answer that they think Truss should give up. In other words, they regret the choice they made less than two months ago. Former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak is also a possible heir. While others point to the new Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt as the new Prime Minister and Sunak as Finance Minister. But the question is whether the party, the system and the voters benefit from the Conservative Party once again selecting a leader of the country. New elections or another elected prime minister? The previous prime minister who first came to power because the voters wanted him to was David Cameron. He was elected in 2010 and led a coalition government until the 2015 election. The Conservative Party also won that election, and this time the party was able to get rid of its coalition partner the Liberal Democrats and govern alone. David Cameron (top) was the previous Prime Minister who first became Prime Minister through an ordinary general election. Theresa May took over when Cameron resigned after the Brexit vote, Boris Johnson was installed by the Conservative Party when May resigned, as was Liz Truss when Johnson resigned just under two months ago. Photo: POOL / Reuters But when he miscalculated the mood in the 2016 EU referendum and lost, he resigned. Theresa May came in without a general election being held. She was seen by many as a transitional figure, and when she did not get a majority for her Brexit deal with the EU, she gave up. Boris Johnson was installed as Prime Minister in the summer of 2019. Even then the voters had not had their say. However, they got it that winter, and Johnson won a landslide election for his party. His leadership is perhaps best remembered for his and the government apparatus’s breach of its own corona rules and poor handling of the first weeks of the pandemic. Anyway, he was forced to resign this summer. Now the party is in much greater chaos. It may be a short time before the British get yet another new prime minister.
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