First Tory MP calls on Liz Truss to resign as prime minister, claiming 'the game is up'

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First Tory MP calls on Liz Truss to resign as prime minister, claiming 'the game is up'
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Blunt claimed the under-fire PM cannot survive turmoil in Westminster

, which saw Jeremy Hunt replace Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor on Friday.

He told Channel 4 News: "I think the game is up and it's now a question as to how the succession is managed. "If there is such a weight of opinion in the parliamentary party that we have to have a change, then it will be effected.The member for Reigate served as an under-secretary in the coalition government for two years and led the Foreign Affairs select committee from 2015 to 2017.It came hours after US President Joe Biden scolded the government's tax cut plans during a visit to an ice cream parlour.

Amid warnings of "difficult decisions" to come over the next two weeks, Mr Hunt and Ms Truss will meet in her Chequers residence on Sunday as tax rises and spending cuts loom on the horizon. The Chancellor, who spent Saturday also meeting with Treasury officials, insisted that he and the Prime Minister were a "team" as he said that his priority was "growth underpinned by stability".

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