{"id":1609256,"date":"2024-04-14T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/apr\/14\/senior-tories-fear-johnson-and-truss-will-sabotage-sunaks-election-campaign"},"modified":"2024-04-14T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T06:00:44","slug":"senior-tories-fear-johnson-and-truss-will-sabotage-sunaks-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/14\/senior-tories-fear-johnson-and-truss-will-sabotage-sunaks-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Tories fear Johnson and Truss will sabotage Sunak\u2019s election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns that vicious circle of party ill-discipline is undermining the PM\u2019s ability to restore order<\/p><p>Senior Tories fear Rishi Sunak is facing a vicious circle of party ill-discipline, amid concerns that attacks from Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Suella Braverman will signal his inability to restore authority in the months before the general election.<\/p><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/mar\/18\/sunak-braces-for-backlash-as-smoking-ban-bill-to-be-introduced-in-commons\">rebellion this week over his plans to ban smoking<\/a> is set to be the latest flashpoint, with libertarian MPs, including Truss, preparing to criticise the proposal as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/jan\/29\/uk-disposable-vapes-ban-very-likely-to-become-law-after-lack-of-objections\">nanny-state measure that is unconservative<\/a>.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/apr\/14\/senior-tories-fear-johnson-and-truss-will-sabotage-sunaks-election-campaign\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/apr\/14\/senior-tories-fear-johnson-and-truss-will-sabotage-sunaks-election-campaign\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns that vicious circle of party ill-discipline is undermining the PM\u2019s ability to restore orderSenior Tories fear Rishi Sunak is facing a vicious circle of party ill-discipline, amid concerns that attacks from Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Suella &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,2816,6,3055,5626,640,56379,30152,14,6964,19767,44425,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609257,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609256\/revisions\/1609257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}