We asked every Greater Manchester Tory MP for a comment on Liz Truss' PMQs performance - not one of them replied

On the day that Liz Truss apologised for 'making mistakes' during a combative performance at Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) followed by Suella Braverman resigning as her Home Secretary, the Manchester Evening News asked every Tory MP in Greater Manchester for their views on Ms Truss' performance. Not one replied.

Greater Manchester has eight Conservative MPs, representing residents in Stockport, Bolton, Bury, Trafford, Leigh and parts of Rochdale. The M.E.N. approached each one for comment on Wednesday afternoon (October 19).

Although he did not reply, one MP who made his thoughts public was Hazel Grove MP William Wragg. He told Commons that he had 'lodged' a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister prior to a banned vote on fracking.

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He said: "What occurred with that financial statement, I am personally ashamed because I cannot go and face my constituents, look them in the eye and say that they should support our great party and the polls would seem to bear that out.

" The next debate is apparently a confidence issue, well I'm not going to fall into that trap. I oppose fracking, I thought that we'd come to a considered position on it but there we go.

“I would no longer be vice-chair of the 1922 Committee. I would no longer maintain a position as a chair of one of the select committees of the House. And indeed, because of that, my letter lodged with my honourable friend, the member for Altrincham and Sale West, would fall, and I wish to maintain that letter with my honourable friend.”

The 'member for Altrincham and Sale West' that Mr Wragg made reference to is Sir Graham Brady MP - who chairs the 1922 Committee of