Steve Double has become the sixth MP openly to call for her to go, while 1922 committee chief Graham Brady is believed to have informed the premier that more than 50 Tories have privately sent him no-confidence letters. The cost-of-living crisis is the stark backdrop for a crisis at Westminster as Ms Truss desperately battles to cling on after being forced to sack ally Kwasi Kwarteng and ditch the disastrous mini-Budget that triggered havoc on markets. There was a vicious barb at Mr Javid over the weekend claiming he was not offered the Chancellor job because the PM regarded him as ‘sh**’. As the session began reports emerged that Ms Truss’s senior aide Jason Stein has been suspended pending an investigating into briefing. Ms Truss told MPs: ‘I have been very clear that I am sorry and that I have made mistakes.’Īmid shouts of ‘resign’, she added: ‘The right thing to do in those circumstances is to make changes, which I have made, and to get on with the job and deliver for the British people.’įormer Cabinet minister Sajid Javid had been slated to ask a question at PMQs, but apparently pulled out at the last minute. ‘I am completely committed to it, so is the Chancellor,’ she said as Jeremy Hunt watched from beside her on the the green benches. The government had been hinting that pensioners faced real-terms cuts as part of a desperate £40billion spending squeeze – but Ms Truss tried to kill off the issue by declaring she will stick to the triple lock. The clashes came as inflation surged back into double-digits with food prices heaping more pain on hard-pressed Britons.

‘I am a fighter not a quitter,’ she said, echoing a famous line from Labour’s Peter Mandelson. Liz Truss offered a grovelling apology for the mini-Budget shambles at a brutal PMQs today as Tory MPs warned her position is ‘untenable’.Ī clearly-rattled premier admitted she was ‘sorry’ and had ‘made mistakes’ as she tried to take the sting out of the atmosphere in the Commons chamber.īut despite Keir Starmer joking that she will be ‘out by Christmas’ after her ‘fantasy economics ended in disaster’, Ms Truss insisted she will not resign.

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