LIZ Truss was jeered in the Commons after she told MPs that a General Election was the “last thing we need”.
The Prime Minister has faced calls to hold a new Westminster vote even from within her own party after reports that she could be set to scrap manifesto pledges on which the Tories were elected in 2019.
The sweeping changes to fiscal policy made in Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-Budget” that led to the UK’s economic crisis, including the scrapping of the cap on bankers’ bonuses, were also without a mandate from the public.
