The Wendy Morton hokey-cokey. You put your left foot in. Your right foot out. You quit as Chief Whip – then you shake it all about.
Helen Saulnier
2 min read
Before these days, in the wake of Suella Braverman’s resignation, it was claimed that Wendy Morton and her deputy, Craig Whittaker, experienced the two resigned.
The rationale appears to have been that, very first, it was verified earlier now that this afternoon’s vote on fracking would be treated by the whips as a vote of self esteem in the Government…
…And that, 2nd, that Graham Stuart, the Minister responding to the discussion, indicated that it was not – without Morton owning been told…
…Which led her and Whittaker to notify colleagues that they had quit their posts amidst chaos in the lobbies – presumably on the ground that neither can continue if the authority of the whips is undermined.
It has been claimed that Liz Truss chased Morton by way of the lobbies to persuade her to stay on, so missing the vote, and so to begin with currently being registered as owning failed to support a self esteem evaluate that she herself experienced called…
…That Whittaker arrived out of the lobbies and explained “I am f*cking furious and I really do not give a f*ck anymore”, amidst statements of Therese Coffey and Jacob Rees-Mogg manhandling Conservative MPs (which he denies)…
…And that Truss was barracked by Tory MPs in the lobbies as confusion reigned about the status of the vote, in which 37 Tory MPs are registered as failing to aid the Authorities.
Last but not least as I compose, Downing Avenue is proclaiming that neither Morton nor Whittaker have resigned. Both have evidently been in a meeting with Truss in the aftermath of the vote.
I was a Conservative MP for the greatest aspect of 10 many years, and have been a political journalist for the greater part of 20. But as the aged tune about the pushmepullyou has it, I’ve “never seen anything at all like it in my life”.
