Powerless, humiliated, labelled a 'ghost' prime minister and compared unfavourably to a head of lettuce -- this is not a good week for Liz Truss.
Powerless, humiliated, labelled a "ghost" prime minister and compared unfavourably to a head of lettuce -- this is not a good week for Liz Truss.
In a bid at business as usual, Truss held a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday and met lawmakers from rival Conservative factions, arguing that keeping her in post can provide stability, even though she has had to ditch almost the entire prospectus on which she was elected party leader just six weeks ago. After The Economist said Truss' time in control of the government -- before the Sept. 23 "mini-budget" that set the markets aflame -- was "roughly the shelf-life of a lettuce," the tabloid Daily Star set up a livestream featuring a photo of the prime minister beside a head of iceberg, adorned with a blond wig, eyes and a mouth. It asks "Can Liz Truss outlast this lettuce?" -- which, five days in, is gradually turning brown.
On Monday Hunt scrapped almost all of Truss' tax cuts, along with her flagship energy policy and her promise that there will be no public spending cuts, saying there were "many difficult decisions" still to come. "While one could argue that yesterday's measures have stabilized the public finances in the short term and pulled the U.K. back into the pack as far as market perceptions of fiscal responsibility is concerned, one must question at what price to the economy next year," said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK.
Truss' defeated leadership rival Rishi Sunak, House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt and popular Defense Secretary Ben Wallace all have supporters, as does Hunt, who many see as the de facto prime minister already. Some even want the return of Boris Johnson, who was ousted in the summer after becoming enmeshed in ethics scandals.
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