Liz Truss has been branded "a walking disaster for the UK economy" as she prepares to make a speech that could define her time in Downing Street.
The new Prime Minister will address a Conservative party conference today riven by in-fighting and splits between MPs over key policies.
Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng were forced into a humiliating U-turn on Monday when they ditched a plan to lower the top rate of income tax for the highest earners.
