Kirsty Buchanan, who was a media adviser to Liz Truss when she was Justice Secretary, said she had never seen anything like the scenes in the House of Commons last night. The former advisor to the Prime Minister told Good Morning Britain that Ms Truss’ handling of the recent weeks has been “excruciating” to watch. The scathing criticism from a former top advisor deals another significant blow to Ms Truss, who is facing growing calls to quit.
Ms Buchanan was asked about the chaotic scenes on show in the Commons last night, which included U-turns on whether it was a ‘vote of confidence’ in Liz Truss.
Good Morning Britain host Adil Ray questioned whether the political advisor had “witnessed anything like this” before.
The close ally of Ms Truss described the scenes coming out of Westminster as “carnage” and “chaos wrapped in confusion”.
She said: “The last few weeks have been like watching the government through your fingers, it is excruciating.”
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Ms Buchanan continued: “But I have never seen anything like last night, it was carnage in the division lobbies.
“We had tales of MPs in tears.
“The whips had been insisting all day that this was a confidence motion for the Prime Minister and then at the very last moment they buckled because it appeared they didn’t have the votes they needed.
“There was a U-turn, there was confusion. There were reports of MPs being manhandled, and other MPs being shouted out.