backbiting

He said "constant backbiting and attacking colleagues" by Tory MPs during the last parliament was a key reason "why the party did so badly in the general election".

Her phone often glows with backbiting messages from Republican factions going after one another, notably in a recent intraparty skirmish over the appointment of a district clerk, which led to name-calling and a lawsuit.

And yet within weeks there was backbiting and infighting.

“One: Flowers and France,” the first of the two parts, has all the political backbiting and scheming of a closed-door Republican caucus to decide the next Speaker of the House.

"Constant backbiting and attacking colleagues" by Tory MPs during the last parliament was a key reason "why the party did so badly in the general election", Mr Blackman said.