LIZ Truss is facing a make or break week as she launches an all out bid to unite ministers and the Conservative Party, a former adviser to Boris Johnson has said.
Reviewing the papers, he commented: “This Sunday Telegraph story, as you’ve alluded to, comes with the headline ‘Truss tells MPs unite or face disaster’, but this is a common theme across all the Sunday papers. This is not unusual for a government to sort of get ahead of the week.
“Tory infighting is the story of the day, it’s actually quite a remarkable thing, not just when the Telegraph but going across the other papers is that Number 10 and the Government and the party itself has actually gone on a mass agenda really to get the party all united.
“In The Telegraph, we’ve got this headline about Number 10, how Truss is going to try and promote that this week. We’ve got an opinion piece from Penny Mordaunt and who’s in the Government in there in The Sun.”
He added: “This is the interesting thing, we’ve got Penny Mordaunt in this in the Telegraph who’s doing a piece saying that the government needs to unite and the party needs to unite, like Suella Braverman in The Sun.
“We’ve got the environment secretary in the Express, we got Nadeem Zahawi in The Mail on Sunday. What’s interesting is actually who are these people?
“Suella and Penny Mordaunt were two of the Government members themselves who only in the last week, ten days, were part of the briefing against each other.
“I don’t know how much hope Liz Truss has got of uniting the party if she can’t even unite her own Cabinet.”
Mr Sellers said: “The remarkable thing about this week coming, and the newspapers sort of allude to this, is what we all forget, is that this is this week coming, it’s actually only going to be the second Cabinet meeting that Liz Truss has held with her Cabinet and the second Prime Minister’s questions against Keir Starmer.
“Given that all that’s happened in the last month, you feel like this has been going on for a year.
“This is only really the second time she’d been in Parliament in front of Keir Starmer, second time the cabinet have come together and she’s got a big job of getting them all together, uniting them.”
