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Many believe PM should resign as dozens face potentially losing whip over fracking vote

Confusion yesterday, the resignation of the home secretary, that excoriating letter criticising the prime minister's actions in government, her policy, suggesting she might have to resign, and then there is the big row coming today about what exactly punishment is handed out to those mps who failed to back the government in a vote last night. you can see already this morning a trickle of mps are coming out and saying that the prime minister needs to go. those comments we just heard minister needs to go. those comments wejust heard on radio four this morning from simon were really quite somethi...

Events of last night, that fracking vote which caused lots of confusion, many conservative mps expressing their anger about how this was handled. we were told early yesterday that this vote was a confidence vote effectively in the government, on the prime minister. later on conservative mps were told it wasn't a confidence vote, and then in the early hours of this morning we were told that in fact it was a confidence vote after all and that conservative mps, more than 30 of them, who hadn't voted for the government would be subject to disciplinary proceedings. that's been greeted by a number o...

Dispatch box graham stuart was saying later in the debate that actually it was not a confidence vote at all, however that happened was a catastrophic mistake and i think mps are right to be upset by being misled or at least confused by that. clearly we need to know how that. clearly we need to know how that happened, and there needs to be some severe discipline in downing street, but that was a completely unforced error and it should have been clear from yesterday morning what was going to happen and what the consequences would be, for that to be thrown into confusion was unacceptable. brute t...

British Prime Minister Liz Truss battled to retain her grip on power on Thursday, a day after a second top minister quit and rowing and jostling broke out among her lawmakers in parliament in a dramatic breakdown of unity and discipline.