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Crispin Blunt has urged the Prime Minister to go immediately, as he told Andrew Neil on Channel 4 that “the game is up”. The MP for Reigate is the first Conservative MP to publicly call for Liz Truss to resign, amid reports that MPs are talking privately about removing her from office. Liz Truss has sought to cling onto power this week after a series of damaging U-turns over the controversial mini-budget.
On Friday she replaced her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng with Jeremy Hunt in a move to restore credibility with backbenchers and calm the financial markets.
However, the drastic decision just weeks into her premiership has done little to steady the ship.
When asked whether Ms Truss can survive, Mr Blunt said: “No I think the game is up.
“And it’s now a question of how the succession is managed.”
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Mr Neil followed up: “Let me put it bluntly, to begin with, how would you get rid of her?”
The Tory MP explained: “If there is such a weight of opinion in parliamentary party that we have to a change then it will be affected.
“Exactly how it’s done and under what mechanism – but it will happen.”
He went on to call for a combination of Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, and Jeremy Hunt to take the top jobs.
Mr Blunt joked: “I would be very, very surprised if there are people dying in a ditch to keep Liz Truss as our prime minister.”
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