Dame Andrea Leadsom hit out at the “briefing and counter-briefing” within the Tory Party but denied the Conservatives are “massively divided” amid speculation of a potential challenge to Rishi Sunak’s leadership.
The health minister said “I certainly don’t like the briefing and counter-briefing” but “the Prime Minister is getting on with the programme of government”.
On LBC radio she said: “You’re trying to assert that everything’s riven. I’m just trying to explain to you, as I walk around Parliament, as I attend 1922 Committees, as I go into the Members’ Tea Room, into the lobby, I do not see a party that’s massively divided.
“There are one or two people who are trying to cause that division but what the Government is doing is trying to get on with the programme.”