A parliamentary coup to oust Liz Truss would be a “disastrously bad idea”, foreign secretary James Cleverly said on Thursday, as the prime minister faced rising pressure to change course on her economic policy.
Truss has been in office for just over a month, but some Tory MPs are privately discussing whether she should be toppled following the chaotic fallout from the government’s “mini” Budget last month.
On Wednesday, she was confronted by a number of Conservative MPs angry at her economic policy, with Rob Halfon, a Tory MP for the working-class seat of Harlow, accusing her of “trashing” blue-collar Conservatism. Another MP described the mood as “funereal”.
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