Truss Faces Whim of Markets and Mutinous UK MPs in Key Week
- Truss bracing for market reaction to major economic U-turn
- Conservative MPs start publicly calling for her resignation
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Britain’s beleaguered prime minister Liz Truss is battling to rescue her premiership this week, when financial markets will deliver a fresh verdict on her screeching economic reset while mutinous backbenchers plot to oust her.
Only 40 days in office, Truss spent Sunday huddling with new Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, her pick to restore stability after a humiliating climbdown that included sacking her initial choice for the job and junking an economic plan that triggered a sell-off in UK assets.