“If she wins, then on policy issues, including budget issues, most colleagues will take the view that she deserves the chance to put her plans into effect. She will get things through parliament. But if her government tries to do things on the integrity questions, I think there could be trouble quite early on,” the minister said.
Davis was echoed by Foreign Office Minister Amanda Milling, who told The Guardian that the current Tory leadership contest had been “toxic and bruising for the Conservative party brand.” She pointed out that with the winner set to be announced on Monday, “the whole party, from the frontbench to the backbench, has to come together as one united team in order to deliver for the British people and defeat Labour. If we don’t, we risk being out of power for a decade.”
According to the source, “it will be absolute mayhem, unless she [Truss] makes a really concerted effort to dip into all the different factions that make up the party. If she doesn’t do that, I think this could be a really, really difficult time for her and therefore for us.”