UK Election: Conservative sniping starts over election losses
Plenty loyal to the government have put the boot in, some less gently than others, to Rishi Sunak's predecessors at Number 10, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
Well, my phone just rang - and have a read of what a figure loyal to Johnson and Truss said to me.
"Rishi has no option but to own these results," they say.
"He has been chancellor or prime minister for virtually all of the last three years and it was he and his supporters who forced Boris and then Liz out of office in order to install him in Downing Street.
"The old saying goes that 'it is the economy, stupid' that defines the choice voters have at the ballot box.
"He [Sunak] was the chancellor who had presided over the stagnation of the British economy and hiked taxes to their highest level in 70 years while failing to seize any of the advantages of leaving the European Union.
"It is little wonder so many previous Conservative voters failed to back us yesterday."
This is a reminder of how - under the surface - the wounds are still raw in the Tory Party and searching questions are being asked by senior figures about its direction.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-65147839
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