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Liz Truss: ‘From Prime Minister to a pub quiz question’

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The Prime Minister Isn't Under a Desk, Is He?

Penny Morden said the Prime Minister is not hiding under a desk. MPs kept saying, where's the Prime Minister? And she kept saying, well, if she's on an important urgent business. It turned out she'd had a crisis meeting with Sir Graham Brady. He chairs the 1922 Committee of Tory-backed Benchers. Was that deliberate? Could that not have just been rescheduled? Well, yes, of course it could. Liz Truss was simply trying to avoid appearing urgent questions. She could have said to Sir Graham, look, Sir Graham, there's an urgent question, I need to go and answer it. But clearly, she was so frightened of Sir Graham

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