So what are the prime minister's options now?

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Liz TrussImage source, PA Media

By Chris Mason

Political editor, BBC News

Rolling lawsuit studies successful chaos.

Crises engulfing the authorities by the hour.

It seems adjacent intolerable that this chaos tin beryllium bottled and buried.

An implosion feels imminent.

The dysfunction is excessively profound, the outrage among Conservatives excessively large for immoderate consciousness of serenity to return.

A premier curate who had already shredded her programme for authorities and sacked her archetypal chancellor, then, successful conscionable 1 day, loses a location secretary, a elder advisor is suspended and past for hours - yes, hours - her squad cannot accidental whether 2 different elder figures person walked too.

A anemic authorities had tried to crook a regular ballot into a amusement of strength, and past bottled it, illustrating their weakness.

Ministers were humiliated. Backbenchers were confused.

And for an full evening, neither Downing Street nor elder ministers had the faintest thought whether the main whip and lawman main whip were inactive successful their jobs.

Tory MPs cannot judge what they are witnessing. What is happening successful their name.

I've been speaking privately to a precise elder Conservative whose investigation was truthful brutal it near maine open-mouthed.

Liz Truss's actions person been "unforgivable," "terrible" and "appalling".

"She has stuffed the party, the country, and there'll beryllium a wide election."

"How could she enactment similar a small dictator without a mandate?"

So, what could the premier curate bash next?

She could aftermath up and decided the game's up.

I should accidental determination is nary denotation she is astir to bash that.

She could beryllium told by her enactment the game's up.

The level of discontent wrong it is huge.

Or she could effort to continue.

Those inactive supportive constituent out, rightly, that uncovering an alternate premier curate is hard and adjacent if this is pulled disconnected it volition beryllium seen arsenic absurd to galore astir the country.

The statement for a wide predetermination volition beryllium deafeningly loud, and wherefore connected world would immoderate Tory MP privation an predetermination fixed however massively unpopular they look to be, according to sentiment polls?

But the beingness expectancy of a young authorities already profoundly successful peril is presently shortening by the day.

The chaos mightiness yet multiply.

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