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The strength of feeling against the PM has steadily worsened as Tory rebels who have long wavered have acted at last.

Is it wrong that they feel they've been intimidated? and pressurised into toeing the party line. is that wrong? |well, i would absolutely say that, | you know, intimidation in any walk of life would be wrong. i think in regards to the very. specific allegations being made by will wragg today. from pacac! indeed. marvellous acronym. look, all i would sayl is i do not recognise, as a government minister, - and as indeed the government minister responsible for public spending, | that account of how- government ever operates. not least because that's| never how i or any of my associates would beha...

Well, i would absolutely say| that, you know, intimidation in any walk of life would be wrong. i i think in regards to the very. specific allegations being made by will wragg today. from pacac! indeed. marvellous acronym. look, all i would sayl is i do not recognise, as a government minister, - and as indeed the government minister responsible for public spending, | that account of how- government ever operates. not least because that's| never how i or any of my associates would behave. but also because the civil- service, of course, when i make a spending allegation i do so on the basis of fo...

To give an account of that| to the commons speaker, i mean that would be i the appropriate forum, i think, down which to proceed. obviously any of these allegations need to be evidenced, really. - that's the long and the short of it. do you believe him? i would need to see - the basis of the evidence on which he makes that allegation. but with that kind of thing be acceptable, i suppose. clearly i do not think- that is an appropriate way for westminster to behave. we've seen what sajid javid, the health secretary, said on the today programme this morning. we've seen what steve baker, your coll...

Evidenced, really. that's the long - and the short of it. do you believe him? i would need to see - the basis of the evidence on which he makes that allegation. - but with that kind of thing be acceptable, i suppose. clearly i do not think- that is an appropriate way for westminster to behave. we've seen what sajid javid, the health secretary, said on the today programme this morning. we've seen what steve baker, your colleague on the conservative backbenches has said. that this ultimately is about the culture of the government that you are a part of and boris johnson leads. whether it is the ...