MADRID, 20 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The rebellion within the British Conservative Party against the Prime Minister, Liz Truss, continues to gain strength after the chaos experienced on Tuesday in the House of Commons, on a day marked by the resignation of the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman.
Some 40 parliamentarians abstained or decided to vote on a motion presented by Labor on ‘fracking’, a practice used to extract fossil fuels that the ‘Tories’ clearly opposed in the campaign prior to the last elections.
Until this Thursday morning, seven deputies had spoken openly to ask for Truss’s resignation. “Unfortunately, it seems that we have to change the leader”, has published the Devon Gary Streeter, who hopes to “avoid the carnage” in the next elections.
The polls reflect a wide advantage for Labor and a popularity at minimum levels for Truss — 10 percent, according to a survey published this week by the YouGov firm. The ‘premier’, however, has ruled out resigning and on Wednesday, before the House of Commons, she proclaimed: “I am a fighter, not someone who gives up.”
In the last few hours, doubts have also arisen about the future of the main leaders of the ‘tory’ parliamentary group, after several media outlets reported their supposed departure after the chaos of the vote. Downing Street has clarified that both the person in charge of promoting party discipline, Wendy Morton, and her number two, Craig Whitaker, “remain in their position,” according to the BBC.
Braverman, for his part, said he was resigning due to an error in the management of official information, although in his statement he made veiled allusions to Truss, underlining the importance of accepting mistakes and stepping back, without waiting for the problems to be resolved “by the art of Magic”.