Yesterday, the Conservative Right issued a warning, urging the party to remain firm on immigration.
After Liz Truss fired Suella Braverman on Wednesday as a result of a disagreement over the policy on migrant numbers, Lord Frost, a former major Brexit negotiator, and senior backbenchers expressed their outrage.
They turned against Miss Truss only hours before her resignation because they were offended by rumors that she sought to relax immigration laws.
Then, a No. 10 official refused to clarify that Miss Truss would uphold the Conservative Party’s vow to lower net migration in general.
According to insiders, Mrs. Braverman was fired from her position as home secretary after a 90-minute “shouting battle” on Tuesday night during which she cautioned the then-PM that relaxing immigration laws in order to spur economic development would be “crazy.”
However, Downing Street said she quit after transgressing the ministerial code by transmitting a private document to a Tory MP.
The former home secretary accused the prime minister of violating important promises and wavering on platform objectives including limiting immigration in her resignation letter.
In a piece published yesterday in the Daily Telegraph, Tory lord Lord Frost said that the Government was carrying out “neither the agenda Liz Truss initially championed nor the 2019 manifesto.”
“There is not even the slightest mandate for this.” It’s only taking place because the Truss Administration botched up everything worse than anybody could have anticipated, he said.
If the present strategy of austerity—pure and simple—budget cutbacks and increased immigration is maintained, he said, “it is game over.”
Yesterday, a long line of Conservative MPs gathered in the Commons to voice their concerns over immigration policy.
Blackpool South Tory MP Scott Benton expressed his disappointment at the departure of the former home secretary.
She is a great loss to all of us who hold out hope that this Government may one day, just one day, be able to control the small boat situation.
We have a commitment to curb immigration, the Prime Minister’s spokesperson for the government said to reporters yesterday. Along with that, we acknowledge the significance of economic growth and stability.
“The Government is thinking about how to effectively strike that balance, and we will provide further information,” it said.