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Kemi Badenoch warned Tory MPs plotting to oust Rishi Sunak to stop being "obsessed with Westminster psychodrama".
There is growing speculation that mutinous Conservative MPs could seek to replace the Prime Minister ahead of the general election in a last-ditch bid to turn the party's fortunes around.
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Asked on LBC what her message was to the plotters, the Business and Trade Secretary said: "I have said many times that people need to stop messing around and get behind the Prime Minister.
"But I think at this particular time, it is really important that we remember that there are thousands of councillors all around the country who are going to be standing for election in May.
"We need people to focus on what they have been doing to help their local communities and not be obsessed with Westminster psychodrama.
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"So it is actually important that we help demonstrate, especially for those Conservative councillors who I want to see re-elected, what the Government has been doing.
"I'm here in Coventry in the West Midlands, look at what is happening with auto, they have had so much investment under (Conservative West Midlands mayor) Andy Street
"That is what I want people to know about rather than who said what in the tea room in Parliament. It is just Westminster bubble gossip, it is not important."
There have been reports that right-wing Tory MPs want to replace Mr Sunak with Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt.
But Mrs Badenoch insisted she did not think there "is very much to these rumours".
She told BBC Breakfast: "I'm sure if Penny was here, she would be distancing herself from those comments.
"I have been saying for a long time that the small minority of MPs who think that this is something to be talking about should stop it. We have local elections, people need to know what the Government and local government has been doing for them.
"But I also know that the Prime Minister has seen this happen many times before - people used to put out similar rumours about other candidates for many years. It is just part and parcel of politics.
"I am very happy to be with him this morning, we work well together, I will be supporting him today. I don't think that there is very much to these rumours. It is almost the same thing we have been reading week after week for the last two years.
"And we need to make sure that one or two MPs cannot dominate the news narrative when 350-plus MPs have different views."
It comes as the Prime Minister urged Tory MPs to "stick to the plan" as he launched a fightback.
Mr Sunak said he hopes to see "more progress" on inflation when the Office for National Statistics releases the latest inflation data on Wednesday.
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He said: "There is now a real sense that the economy is turning a corner with all the economic indicators pointing in the right direction.
"This year, 2024, will be the year Britain bounces back.
"Inflation has more than halved, with the OBR (Office for Budget Responsibility) forecasting it will hit its 2% target in just a few months' time, a full year ahead of what they were forecasting just a few months ago."
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