The future of British prime minister Liz Truss is uncertain now that several MPs from her Conservative Party are openly calling for her departure. She herself is not yet thinking about resigning, she said in an interview with the BBC. “I stay because I was chosen [by a mere fraction of the British people] to serve for this country.”
Labour Party beats the drum for her departure from 10 Downing Street and meanwhile Truss makes little of herself. She did speak to the BBC for a while, but before her visit to the British House of Commons earlier this week, she literally said nothing at all.
Truss announced a package of contentious tax measures to boost the economy after her recent tenure. That caused unrest in the financial markets, which caused the plans to disappear into the trash can roughly from cover to cover. Her confidant Kwasi Kwarteng was dismissed as finance minister. Quarterback successor Jeremy Hunt announced on Monday that he would reverse almost all of his predecessor’s tax cuts.
“I wanted to act to help people with their utility bills and tackle the problem of high taxes. But we went too far and too fast,” Truss said. She acknowledged that she made mistakes, but also said that she corrected them. Of the discontent in her party, which has plummeted in the polls, she said that “we simply cannot afford to spend our time talking about the Conservative Party, rather than what we have to deliver.”
