Nadine Dorries: Truss Should Call A General Election.

Nadine Dorries supported Liz Truss when she ran to be the leader of the Conservative party. After Truss' victory, she asked Nadine to stay on as Culture Secretary. However, Ms. Dorries preferred to follow Boris and Rishi to the backbenches. Dorries comes from a working-class Liverpudlian background and she served in Boris Johnson's cabinet as did Liz Truss.

Now with Truss' u-turn on the policy of income tax Ms. Dorries has accused her former colleague of throwing Chancellor Kwarteng "under the bus". Mr. Kwarteng at the Conservative party conference yesterday admitted: "what a day it had been". After he and Truss climbed down on the above policy when rebel Tories threatened a rebellion.

This income tax would have benefited the better paid and not those struggling to make ends meet. Liz Truss said the idea had been Mr. Kwarteng's, not hers as he oversees the UK's finances. Asked whether Ms. Truss supported her under-fire chancellor she refused to say.

Ms. Truss said she is not ashamed of doing a u-turn something her idol Maggie Thatcher never did. Truss is also facing a battle with Tory rebels over the fact that benefits may be cut.

Nadine Dorries as Culture Secretary oversaw the Channel 4 sell-off idea, curtailing or replacing the BBC licence fee, and the online safety bill. All this as Ms. Dorries stated had been signed off by the Johnson cabinet and ready to be implemented.

However, all these ideas have been stopped under the new Truss administration. This has led Nadine Dorries a supposed Truss loyalist to say Truss should call a general election. Dorries' reasoning is if Truss wants to break with the Johnson years she should ask the country to give her a mandate. If Truss won then she could clearly break with the Johnson years and forge ahead with ideas of her own.

In 2019 Boris Johnson won a landslide victory mainly for his support for Brexit. Of course, there were other policies but Brexit was the one that won it for Johnson.

Both Truss and Dorries served in that cabinet where voters gave the Tories an 80-seat majority. In other words, Dorries is accusing Truss of betraying those who gave Boris his 80-seat majority. Also effectively wiping out ideas agreed upon by the former Johnson regime.

Is Nadine Dorries correct in her assertion? Certainly, from her backbench position Ms. Dorries is no longer chained to follow the party line. So she is entitled to make criticism of the woman she worked alongside. Should Truss have enacted what was drawn up by the former Johnson regime? Does she need to call a general election in order to have her way? This will cause as many agreements as disagreements no doubt.

Benefits should be increased in line with inflation. Beth Rigby was interviewing Liz Truss but Truss would not say. Truss like other politicians when asked direct questions either half answers, avoids, or talks a tried and trusted party line. Rigby tried to tie Truss down when interviewing her but Truss ducked and dived like Tyson Fury.

Jacob Rees-Mogg who also served in the Johnson administration disagrees with Nadine Dorries. Mr. Rees-Mogg now serving under Truss as Business Secretary seemed to miss the days when he and Ms. Dorries got on. Mr. Rees-Mogg said when sitting in the Johnson cabinet he got on "like a house on fire" with Nadine Dorries. Mr. Rees-Mogg also described his former colleague as a "wonderful" woman. Asked if Ms. Truss would call a general election over her credibility Mr. Rees-Mogg said "no". In fact, Mr. Rees-Mogg indicated that Truss could spin out her time as Prime Minister until January 2025.

Let us hope with Labour riding in the polls a general election is called before then.