{"id":17513,"date":"2022-11-24T14:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/11\/24\/ex-chief-whip-recalls-chaos-of-confidence-vote\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:40:54","slug":"ex-chief-whip-recalls-chaos-of-confidence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=17513","title":{"rendered":"Ex-chief whip recalls &#8216;chaos&#8217; of confidence vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Wendy Morton explained how then-PM Liz Truss would not accept her resignation after a Commons vote on fracking in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">There were confusing reports whether it was being treated as a confidence vote, that some Tory MPs were manhandled and if the chief whip and her deputy had resigned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Speaking about events two months later, Ms Morton told Politics Live it was a night she would &#8220;probably never forget&#8221; and how she has met Ms Truss a few times since the &#8220;chaos&#8221; of that night, adding their relations were &#8220;fine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-63322533\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">MPs allege bullying during chaotic fracking vote<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-63745181?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Wendy Morton explained how then-PM Liz Truss would not accept her resignation after a Commons vote on fracking in October. There were confusing reports whether it was being treated &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}