Embattled U.K. premier Liz Truss said she is “a fighter, not a quitter,” as she faced lawmakers for the first time since firing her finance minister and junking most of her economic program just weeks after announcing it.
“I am somebody who’s prepared to front up,” she said during her weekly question-and-answer session in the House of Commons on Wednesday. “The right thing to do is make changes, as I’ve made.”
Support for Truss and her ruling Conservatives has plunged to record depths following her program of tax cuts announced on Sept. 23, which triggered chaos in the financial markets and forced up borrowing costs and mortgage rates. Newly installed Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has reversed most of the policies to restore financial stability, but also put the Conservatives on course to impose another round of punishing austerity on Britons already struggling with a cost-of living crisis.
