Liz Truss ally warns Tory 'b*****ds' trying to wreck her premiership

Cabinet ally of Liz Truss echoes John Major’s famous quote by warning that Tory ‘b*****ds’ are trying to wreck her premiership

• A cabinet ally warned Tory MPs have gone ‘soft’ in the wake of the 45p tax u-turn
• They said it could make it challenging to ‘get the really difficult stuff through’ 
• It recalls former PM Sir John Major’s outburst at Tory ‘b*****ds’ in the 1990s 
• The source singled out former minister Michael Gove as a disloyal ‘snake’

Tory ‘b*****ds’ are trying to wreck Liz Truss’s premiership in revenge for her winning the leadership, a Cabinet ally warned yesterday.

In a furious broadside to critics who forced the Prime Minister to drop plans to axe the top tax rate, the Cabinet source said Tory MPs were going ‘soft’ – and questioned whether they had the stomach to deliver on the Government’s radical agenda.

‘When you look at what happened on 45p you have to be worried that we are going soft as a party,’ the source said.

‘Now we’re seeing the same on benefits. If we give up on this, how are we going to get the really difficult stuff through? We cannot just keep rolling over.

‘The trouble is there are so many b*****ds in the party – as someone once said – who now seem determined to block everything she wants to do, even though doing that will guarantee we lose the next election.’

The extraordinary intervention recalled former PM Sir John Major’s outburst at the Tory ‘b*****ds’ who lined up against his policy on the EU in the 1990s.

Tory ‘b*****ds’ are trying to wreck Liz Truss’s premiership in revenge for her winning the leadership, a Cabinet ally warned yesterday

The source singled out former minister Michael Gove for criticism after he led the revolt over the 45p tax change, and signalled that he would also rebel over plans to squeeze £7 billion from the welfare bill.

‘Michael Gove is a snake who has been disloyal to every Tory leader he’s been in government with,’ the minister said.

‘He was disloyal to Cameron, he was disloyal to May, he was disloyal to Boris – twice – and now he’s repeating the pattern with Liz.’

Mr Gove has been appearing to use the Tory conference in Birmingham to install himself as unofficial leader of the party’s Truss-sceptic MPs.

The source singled out former minister Michael Gove for criticism after he led the revolt over the 45p tax change

The extraordinary intervention recalled former PM Sir John Major’s (pictured on September 10) outburst at the Tory ‘b*****ds’ who lined up against his policy on the EU in the 1990s

In a bombshell television interview, he even branded the planned tax cut ‘un-Conservative’, before using a number of appearances on the conference fringe to launch further criticisms.

A friend of Mr Gove insisted he was ‘just doing what he thinks is right’, and denied that he was agitating on behalf of Rishi Sunak, who he backed for the leadership.

In 1993, Sir John was caught on a live microphone discussing who he described as the three Cabinet ‘b******s’ threatening to resign over the EU’s Maastricht Treaty.

The incendiary comment came to epitomise the Tory infighting that dogged Sir John’s premiership and ultimately ended in Tony Blair’s Labour landslide general election victory in 1997.

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