Cupboard Conflict Over High Fee Tax U-Flip
Cupboard Ministers haven’t been shy in freelancing on financial coverage over the previous couple of days, with Suella Braverman now attacking the Authorities’s reversal of a lower to the 45p charge of tax. Chatting with Christopher Hope this afternoon, the Dwelling Secretary expressed her “disappointment” on the U-turn, and criticised the rebels who successfully “staged a coup” towards the PM. She’s not one to mince her phrases…
The blue-on-blue preventing didn’t finish there, with Levelling Up Secretary Simon Clarke taking to Twitter to help Suella:
Suella speaks a variety of good sense, as traditional. https://t.co/EHEPhhZ0sX
— Simon Clarke MP (@SimonClarkeMP) October 4, 2022
Jacob Rees-Mogg was additionally fast to voice his disappointment on the scrapped lower at a fringe occasion this afternoon, though he claimed to recognise the politics of the transfer. This all comes within the context of public cupboard battles over advantages, and Penny Mordaunt’s assaults on authorities comms. In the meantime backbench agitators proceed briefing out plans to insurgent, with some now even claiming they’re holding “disaster” talks about Liz’s management. Truss has been PM for 28 days. Not fairly the honeymoon interval she would’ve hoped for…
