Conservative MPs allege intimidation during chaotic vote to express support for PM
The former British minister for Brexit David Frost during the Boris Johnson period has demanded that the British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, resign after the UK Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has left the Executive.
“Truss simply cannot remain in office for a very obvious reason: he campaigned against the policies he is now implementing,” he said in a letter published in the newspaper ‘The Telegraph’, where he also compared the prime minister to Enrique VI for being a “weak figure” and “unable to control the forces around her”.
Apart from the resignation of the Home Secretary, chaos broke out in Parliament this Wednesday after at least forty Conservative MPs abstained or did not decide to vote on a motion presented by Labor on ‘fracking’, practice used to extract fossil fuels that are in the subsoil.
Despite the fact that no ‘tory’ has voted against, this abstention has been considered as a ‘de facto’ vote of confidence for the prime minister and her government in the face of the crisis unleashed by Truss’s economic policy. The ‘premier’ herself and the head of the Conservative parliamentary group, Wendy Morton, are among the abstentionists, according to the BBC.
Many Conservatives had previously spoken out against that fracking motion, although they were told minutes before the vote that abstention was seen as a vote of confidence in the Prime Minister and the Government, meaning that if they did not side side of the Executive could be expelled from the parliamentary caucus.
After that, some parliamentarians from the Conservative Party have denounced intimidation in the vote, even a deputy would have been seen crying in the lobby after the process, according to the Labor MP Anna McMorrin on her Twitter account.
“I have just witnessed a tearful Tory member being manhandled in the lobby to vote against our motion to continue the fracking ban,” McMorrin said.
In this sense, the Labor MP Chris Bryant has urged an investigation within Parliament after observing several scenes in which the Business Minister, Jacob Rees Mogg, and the Deputy Prime Minister, Therese Coffey, heatedly pressured their colleagues to support Truss.
Finally, the British Executive has won the vote with 326 votes in favor and 230 against, obtaining a difference of 96 votes that has not jeopardized the majority due to the 40 abstentions.
“TRUSS IS NOT UP TO HIS JOB”
Conservative MP Charles Walker, meanwhile, has described the events that took place on Wednesday afternoon in the House of Commons as “disorder and disgrace.”
Visibly shocked, the senior conservative parliamentarian has maintained that he considers it “inexcusable” and that “there was no turning back” for the government, adding that he is “furious” and that he believes that his patience with his party has run out, just as has picked up the BBC.
Likewise, Walker has addressed the conservative parliamentarians who have supported Truss to be prime minister: “I hope it was worth it.”
He has also shown his desire that the British prime minister resign “very soon”, assuring that “she is not up to her job”.
