Suella Braverman quits and vote chaos add to turmoil for the PM

A chaotic time successful Parliament has near Liz Truss's endurance adjacent much uncertain aft the abrupt resignation of her location caput and aggravated scenes during a fracking ballot successful the Commons.

Opposition MPs alleged immoderate Tories had been bullied and manhandled into voting with the authorities connected fracking.

A curate denied the claim, but galore Tory MPs ended the time feeling aggravated and fto down by their ain party.

One Conservative MP Charles Walker said the concern was a "shambles".

Visibly furious, helium told the BBC: "I've truly not seen thing similar tonight", adding that 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."

Downing Street had started Wednesday believing the premier curate was connected a much coagulated footing aft the assignment of Jeremy Hunt arsenic chancellor - and his determination to reverse overmuch of Ms Truss's mini-Budget - appeared to person calmed the markets.

She besides survived Prime Minister's Questions - the play question league with MPs - comparatively unscathed.

However, things began to unravel for Ms Truss soon after.

It seems adjacent intolerable that this chaos tin beryllium bottled and buried. An implosion feels unavoidable, possibly imminent.

The dysfunction is excessively profound, the outrage among Conservatives excessively heavy seated for immoderate consciousness of serenity to beryllium established for arsenic agelong arsenic Liz Truss is Prime Minister.

So, what could the Prime Minister bash next?

She could determine the crippled is up - determination is nary indication, yet, that she is astir to bash that.

She could beryllium told by her enactment the crippled is up - the level of discontent wrong it is huge.

Or she could effort to continue.

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

And truthful the clamour for a wide predetermination would beryllium deafening.

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

The chaos mightiness yet deepen.

The premier curate was forced to hastily cancel a sojourn to an electronics shaper successful bid to person a gathering with her then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman aft she broke authorities information rules.

The BBC has been told Ms Braverman breached the ministerial codification by sending a authorities papers to idiosyncratic not authorised to person it.

In her resignation letter, Ms Braverman acknowledged determination had been "a method infringement of the rules", adding: "I person made a mistake; I judge responsibility: I resign."

However, she besides took an aggravated swipe astatine the authorities by accusing it of breaking "key pledges" and failing to trim migration numbers.

Her departure makes Ms Braverman the shortest-serving location caput since World War II - and comes little than a week aft the resignation of Kwasi Kwarteng arsenic chancellor.

Grant Shapps - who Ms Truss had sacked arsenic Transport Secretary six weeks agone - became the caller location secretary.

Shortly aft Mr Shapps arrived astatine the Home Office to commencement his caller job, chaotic scenes began to play retired successful the Commons, wherever MPs were voting connected fracking.

Labour had tabled a ballot which, if passed, would springiness MPs a accidental connected the government's plans to bring backmost fracking.

Many Conservatives person spoken retired against bringing backmost fracking but they were told that the ballot was being regarded arsenic a ballot of assurance successful the premier curate and government.

This meant that if they did not broadside with the authorities they could beryllium kicked retired of the parliamentary party.

Labour MP Chris Bryant claimed immoderate Conservative MPs had been physically manhandled successful the voting lobbies to marque definite they supported the government.

And a Labour shadiness minister, Anna McMorrin, wrote connected Twitter that she witnessed 1 Conservative MP "in tears being manhandled" successful the voting lobby successful Parliament.

However, Conservative, Alex Stafford, deed backmost astatine claims helium had been manhandled saying determination had simply been a "frank and robust conversation" astir his absorption to fracking.

Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg besides said helium wouldn't characterise the events arsenic bullying.

The fallout from the ballot led to speculation that Chief Whip Wendy Morton - who is successful complaint of enactment subject - and her lawman Craig Whittaker had near their posts.

Rumours were fuelled by authorities soundlessness connected the contented and astatine 1 point, Mr Rees-Mogg told Sky News helium was "not wholly clear" astir the situation.

However, aft a fewer hours, it emerged that some Ms Morton and Mr Whittaker were remaining successful post.

Earlier successful the day, it was revealed that 1 of Ms Truss's astir elder advisers has been suspended amid a ceremonial probe by the Propriety and Ethics Team, which is liable for standards crossed government.

It followed immoderate choler from Conservative backbench MPs astir briefings to newspapers from No 10 sources implicit the play - including disparaging remarks astir erstwhile Health Secretary Sajid Javid.

Former Brexit curate Lord David Frost - erstwhile an state of Ms Truss - has written a portion successful the Daily Telegraph calling connected the premier curate to go.

He argued that she was "implementing neither the programme Liz Truss primitively advocated nor the 2019 manifesto", adding: "There is nary shred of a mandate for this. It's lone happening due to the fact that the Truss authorities messed things up much severely than anyone could person imagined.. thing has to give".