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Seven reasons to be fearful of your softly-spoken new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy Hunt is an emollient, centre-right Tory - but it doesn't make the message he's delivering any sweeter. We look at why you should brace for austerity, high energy bills, and uncertainty over benefit and state pension rates

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss’s history of U-turns as PM steps down after just 45 days in power

Britain’s short-lived PM was no stranger to about-turns even before she entered Downing Street

The Independent UK

Liz Truss almost as unpopular as Prince Andrew as 80% hold ‘unfavourable’ view of PM

Net approval of –70 worse than either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn at peaks of unpopularity

The Independent UK

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Austerity cuts could be as deep as 2010, experts warn as energy bills set to hit £5,000

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt leading push for ‘austerity season two’, says Labour

The Independent UK

Who might replace Liz Truss if she is ousted as PM? - OLD

Some MPs hoping PM can be replaced ‘within days’ – as talks on ‘coronation’ replacement continue

The Independent UK

Who is Penny Mordaunt? The navy reservist who could yet sail into Downing Street

The ‘gallant lady’ with a sailor’s humour is hoping to replace Liz Truss but faces a tough ask in overcoming a wave of support for Rishi Sunak

The Independent UK

Liz Truss's poll rating at MINUS 70 as even loyal Tory admits she's in last chance saloon

James Heappey - who attends Cabinet and was sent out by Downing Street to defend the lame duck PM - admitted 'I don’t think there’s the opportunity to make any more mistakes'

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British prime minister Liz Truss's disastrous month in power may cause her exit within days

Some British media are now gambling on embattled Prime Minister Liz Truss having a shorter shelf life than a fresh lettuce — just five days — after the utter failure of her mini-budget.

ABC News

U.K. Prime Minister Truss abandons her agenda to stem market meltdown

Truss is still officially in charge, but hardly seems to be in control.

Axios

Truss sees UK vision dismantled as rivals fight for her job

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss was clinging to power on Monday after suffering the abject humiliation of being forced to U-Turn on much of the economic program she announced only last month.

Tribune News Service

Humiliated Liz Truss sits in silence amid U-turn meltdown as Tories tell her to go

In one of the biggest U-turns in political history, the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt scrapped almost all of the mini-Budget, which has plunged the economy into crisis

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss holds crunch No10 meeting with Cabinet as she faces calls to resign from five Tory MPs

Mss Truss swerved a House of Commons grilling on her decision to sack Kwasi Kwarteng

Evening Standard

‘Hunt’s running the show’: the day power drained away from Liz Truss

Truss’s decline from shiny new prime minister to leader in name only continues, the last 24 hours underlining just how weak she is

The Guardian - UK

‘A case of when, not if’ Tories oust Truss amid plotting

British Prime Minister Liz Truss is trying to rescue her premiership after the tax cut debacle caused a fiscal crisis and gave Labour a gargantuan polling lead over her Conservatives. But after that calamitous start, analysts doubt the Tory Party will keep Truss in power for long, even if it…

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The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt shreds Truss’s economic plans in astounding U-turn on tax

New chancellor tells Commons there will be tax rises and spending cuts, as PM dodges urgent question

The Guardian - UK

Up was down, night was day. And was the prime minister OK?

Librium Liz appeared for a brief, silent cameo in the Commons as her captors, Jeremy Hunt and Penny Mordaunt, held court

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss looked 'anxious' and as if she'd 'been punched' in 'unreal' Commons appearance

Liz Truss looked as nervous as someone who had been "physically punched" after she snuck into the House of Commons and sat silent in the chamber for 29 minutes as her colleague was grilled over the Government's "grotesque chaos"

The Guardian - UK

With the energy price climbdown, Liz Truss has probably sealed her own fate

It’s unclear why the PM would stay in office now; Hunt has become the face of change and Mordaunt made smart moves in her place

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Evening Standard

Liz Truss meeting with Graham Brady when she swerved Commons grilling on Kwasi Kwarteng

The Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt stood in for the Prime Minister to answer questions from the opposition

Evening Standard

Watch: Mordaunt insists PM Liz Truss ‘not under a desk’ hiding from MPs

A Government minister insisted Liz Truss was “not under a desk” hiding from MPs after the Prime Minister was urged to quit. Shouts of “where is she?” and “weak” could be heard in the Commons after Penny Mordaunt deputised for Ms Truss to respond to an urgent question on the…

The National (Scotland)

Fifth Tory MP calls for Truss to quit as she fails to stand up to scrutiny

A FIFTH Tory MP has called for Liz Truss to go after she failed to stand up to scrutiny in the House of Commons for binning her entire economic…

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: Switch on is off

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Daily Mirror

Awkward Liz Truss spends 29 silent minutes in Commons humiliation over her Budget

The lame duck Prime Minister has been missing in action since she sacked her long-time ally Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday as Chancellor and U-turned on her tax-cutting agenda

The Independent UK

Liz Truss jeered as she turns up in Commons after mystery absence

Penny Mordaunt refuses to reveal ‘very good reason’ PM failed to turn up to answer Labour question

Wales Online

Thunderous laughter as Commons leader tries to insist the Prime Minister isn't 'cowering under her desk'

Commons leader Penny Mordaunt has been taking questions from MPs in the Prime Minister's absence

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