Liz Truss and her new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt face a make-or-break week as they try to win support from the markets and the Tory party amid calls for her to go.
In a chaotic week for the Government and the country, Jeremy Hunt replaced Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor, but that has not stopped calls from within the Conservative party for Truss to go.
And last night a third Tory MP, Jamie Wallis, revealed he had written to the PM asking her to stand down. Top news stories today Another Tory MP, Robert Halfon, accused the government of acting like “libertarian jihadists” who had “treated the whole country as laboratory mice”. Talking on Sky News, he declined to deny MPs wanted a new leader.Tory heavyweights also waded in, ex- Chancellor George Osborne saying: “She is PINO – Prime Minister In Name Only.”
He told the BBC ’s Laura Kuenssberg: “We’re going to have to take some very difficult decisions on spending and on tax.” He said all government departments faced cuts.
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