Make Rishi Sunak cut taxes or replace him, Tories tell Boris Johnson amid election fallout

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : We don't need to raise National Insurance and we should cut that."
45% : The Treasury has been wrong on its demand that it has to have National Insurance rises.
42% : Party heavyweights urged him to reverse last month's rise in National Insurance and cut the burden on businesses to kickstart economic growth.
41% : Sir John Redwood, who served as a Cabinet minister under Thatcher, questioned why Mr Sunak is "making the UK the only advanced country to respond to a global cost of living crisis by increasing taxes".
40% : However, they warned the Prime Minister that he is "not out of the woods", saying "partygate" and the cost of living were frequently raised on the doorstep and Number 10 must respond by cutting taxes now.
38% : Boris Johnson should replace Rishi Sunak if the Chancellor is not prepared to cut taxes in response to the Conservatives' local election mauling, senior Tories have suggested.
36% : "We need to cut taxes to give people more room to ride out the shock of the cost of living crisis.
36% : Therese Coffey, the Work and Pensions Secretary, insisted Mr Johnson is not an electoral liability and that the Government is cutting taxes for seven in 10 Britons.

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