Foreign secretary fails to rule out U-turn on corporation tax
Critics of Liz Truss’s tax-cutting agenda should “shut up” and get behind the prime minister, a backbench Tory MP has said.
Christopher Chope, a veteran dissenter from his party, said he had “full confidence” in the PM amid a growing revolt over last month’s “mini-Budget”.
Mr Chope also claimed that negative descriptions of last night’s 1922 Committee meeting “bear no resemblance to the truth”.
An increasing number of Conservatives are calling on Ms Truss to reverse her plans, which include a cut to corporation tax.
Earlier, foreign secretary James Cleverly warned Tory MPs that getting rid of her as prime minister would be a “disastrously bad idea”.
Speaking on Radio 4’s Today, Mr Cleverly said the government needed to do things that would “bring certainty to the markets”.
