Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are holding crunch talks today as they look at delaying a Halloween wave of austerity.
Disgraced Liz Truss had set October 31 - this coming Monday - for a “medium term fiscal plan” that would unleash billions in cuts to fill a £30-40bn black hole.
New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has so far stuck to the date and was due to meet Cabinet ministers one by one - even in Health - to draw up cuts last week.