Liz Truss has 12 hours to turn things around - Tory MP

Prime Minister Liz Truss has "12 hours" to prevention her occupation aft her authorities descended into caller chaos, a elder Conservative MP has warned.

Simon Hoare said: "I deliberation contiguous and time are crunch days."

Cabinet ministers are rallying astir Ms Truss but a increasing fig of her MPs judge her clip is up.

Her attempts to reassert her authorization were torpedoed by the resignation of the location caput and farcical scenes aft a Commons ballot connected Wednesday.

All eyes volition beryllium connected Sir Graham Brady, president of the almighty backbench 1922 committee, who could archer Ms Truss she nary longer has the enactment of her MPs, if capable of them motion letters calling for her to go.

There is besides speculation that elder figures successful the enactment could hold connected a replacement for Ms Truss, which would debar the request for different Tory enactment contest, oregon a wide election.

But the antithetic factions successful the enactment are divided implicit who should instrumentality connected the job.

Ms Truss appears determined to combat connected - and is attempting to reassert her authorization aft different time of chaos, which began with her firing Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

She appointed Grant Shapps, 1 of her harshest interior critics, who she had sacked six weeks earlier arsenic transport secretary, arsenic Ms Braverman's replacement.

A Labour effort to get a caller instrumentality done banning fracking sparked turmoil successful the Tory ranks.

MPs were threatened with the expulsion from the enactment if they did not backmost the government, contempt galore of them being vehemently opposed to fracking.

Just earlier they were astir to vote, clime curate Graham Stuart told them it would not beryllium treated arsenic a assurance ballot successful Ms Truss, which immoderate took to mean they could backmost the Labour question without fearfulness of being sacked.

This led to chaotic scenes arsenic MPs who wanted to ballot successful favour of a prohibition connected fracking were confronted by furniture ministers ordering to them to ballot with the government.

For respective hours, it was not wide whether the authorities main whip Wendy Morton - the pistillate successful complaint ensuring MPs ballot the mode they are told - had resigned oregon not.

Overnight, the authorities issued a connection saying Ms Morton remains successful her occupation - and the fracking ballot had ever been a assurance ballot successful the PM.

The Tory MPs who voted successful favour of Labour's fracking prohibition question would look "proportionate disciplinary action", the authorities said.

After the chaotic scenes connected Wednesday night, Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker said helium was "furious" with the "shambles" - and determination was "no coming back" for the government.

Later helium added: "I expect the premier curate to resign precise soon due to the fact that she's not up to her job."

Some Conservative MPs said Sir Charles was speaking for each of them.

On Thursday morning, Conservative MP Crispin Blunt said Ms Truss's presumption is "wholly untenable".

"If she doesn't recognize that past I would beryllium astonished," helium said.

But Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said the furniture inactive has assurance successful Ms Truss.

"She's a premier curate and we proceed to enactment her," Ms Trevelyan tells BBC Breakfast.

She said Ms Truss was the champion idiosyncratic the Conservative Party tin connection to beryllium premier minister.

"She was selected done a agelong and tortuous process implicit the summer...by our members and that's however the Conservative enactment strategy works to take a person and we basal firmly alongside her," Ms Trevelyan said.

Ms Trevelyan said she hopes that immoderate MPs who "harassed" others to ballot successful the assurance question volition beryllium disciplined.