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‘It feels like game over’: Truss struggles for authority as Tories plot her demise

Her MPs know that just as Boris Johnson shredded the image of Conservative integrity, she has done it for economic competence

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2022

Miriam Margoyles says ‘f*** you’ live on Radio 4’s Today programme as Jeremy Hunt arrives for interview

‘Oh no no no you mustn’t say that. We’ll have to have you out of the studio now,’ said presenter Justin Webb

The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2022

Scrambling Jeremy Hunt says Truss government made mistakes - and some taxes WILL rise

Jeremy Hunt, who replaced sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor on Friday, said in his first interview in the role "mistakes had been made" and warned of a challenging situation to come

Daily Mirror · Oct 15, 2022

Liz Truss may still be in office but she is now out of power

Record View says the vast majority of Truss’s own MPs can’t stand her and are openly plotting to remove her as quickly as possible.

Daily Record · Oct 15, 2022

‘Time’s up’: what the papers say about Liz Truss and her fight to stay prime minister

Turmoil in Tory party takes centre stage after unconvincing moves by an unrepentant Truss to fix her policy crisis

The Guardian - AU · Oct 15, 2022

Liz Truss fighting to stay in power following chaotic day in Westminster

It comes after she sacked her chancellor and ditched a major chunk of her mini-budget

Wales Online · Oct 15, 2022

'Liz Truss signed her own death warrant in nonsensical 9 minute press conference'

It was not just having to U-turn on her signature policy of corporation tax cuts that sealed her fate. It was her complete inability to show any contrition for the damage she has inflicted on her country and her party

Daily Mirror · Oct 14, 2022

Liz Truss could be out of No 10 in DAYS as government implodes and Tories plot

Liz Truss is now desperately clinging to power as her own MPs attempt to find a replacement for the PM, who some describe has made the party a 'laughing stock'

Daily Mirror · Oct 14, 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng: only a desperate prime minister sacks a chancellor

Having seen her government’s popularity plummet just weeks after taking office, British prime minister Liz Truss has sacked her chancellor of the exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng in a bid to save herself. Kwarteng, widely seen as Truss’s right-hand man, was rushed back to London from New York for the occasion, where…

The Conversation · Oct 14, 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng's overnight dash home to get sack after deluded gamble led to misery

Kwasi Kwarteng had been chancellor for just 38 days, the second-shortest time ever spent in the post, as Liz Truss replaced him with Jeremy Hunt on a day rapidly descending into farce

Daily Mirror · Oct 14, 2022