BORIS Johnson is facing fresh pressure from his backbenches for clarity on taxes, education and coronavirus policy as MPs return to Westminster after the summer recess.

The Prime Minister has come under fire for presiding over a series of U-turns, including on exam results and face coverings in schools, over the last few weeks.

After months of what one Tory MP said had been a "megadisaster from one day to the next", many are demanding reassurances as Parliament resumes this afternoon.

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A senior Conservative MP told PA that backbenchers are "tired of the U-turns".

"There's that element of calamity - and frankly there are people from the Red Wall seats who are getting jittery. But not only Red Wall seats, but other people who haven't got marginal seats like that.

"We'd like to be in a Government that has the impression of being competent - rather than lurching from one issue to another and then after a short time doing a U-turn."

He said MPs were left with "egg on their face" each time they defended Tory Government policy to constituents, and then had to reverse their stance.

The backbencher urged the Government to say it would be "more careful in decision making" to avoid U-turns, and called for clarity on tax policy to "avoid the Tory Party having a public row".