Liz Truss Has Seventeen Days To Save Her Job

Mutinous Conservative MPs have given Liz Truss seventeen days to save her job.

Tory whips warned she could face a leadership challenge if Kwasi Kwarteng’s economic statement on October 31 fails to end the turbulence in the financial markets, and it was reported that Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt were being lined up on a collective ticket to replace the Prime Minister.

According to a newspaper outlet, Senior Tories are preparing the duo, who both ran in the summer’s leadership contest, to enter No 10 if the present Prime Minister fails.

The Prime Minister and her closest aides have been weighing up whether to ditch parts of last month’s emergency mini-Budget, including her flagship promise to scrap an £18 billion hike in corporation tax.

Asked about the possibility of another humiliating U-turn, the Chancellor said: ‘Let’s see.’

It comes as panicked Tory MPs engaged in fevered discussions about whether to try to remove Liz Truss scarcely a month into her premiership and who might replace her.

A former Cabinet minister said it was all about the statement on October 31, and she’s got days to turn things around, and that she’s going to have to reverse the mini-Budget and she’s probably going to have to sack Kwasi Kwerteng, and even then it might not be enough if she can’t regain the confidence of the markets.

The concern is that she still seems to be in denial about how bad things are.

A Downing Street source acknowledged that the waters threatening to engulf the Prime Minister are choppy and might well get choppier, but insisted that there was a way through.

It comes as one MP told a newspaper outlet that Rishi’s people, Penny’s people and the sensible Truss supporters who realise she’s a catastrophe just need to sit down together and work out who the unity candidate is.

It’s either Rishi Sunak as prime minister with Penny as his deputy and foreign secretary or Penny as prime minister with Rishi as chancellor.

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly warned the plotters that any endeavour to remove the Prime Minister will be catastrophic for both the party and the country and that they’ve got to realise that they do need to bring certainty to the markets.

He said that he believed that altering the leadership would be a disastrously bad idea politically and also economically.

The warning came as Mr Kwarteng disregarded rumours he could be sacked, saying he was absolutely 100 per confident he would still be there in a month’s time.

The pound surged on the back of the rumoured tax U-turn, with sterling accumulating more than two cents in value against the dollar.

Sadly, Liz Truss’s tenure was doomed from the beginning, yet she’s managed to make it even worse, and everything she does is disastrous.

What the United Kingdom needs is stability, and this isn’t just a Liz Truss problem, it’s a global problem and it can’t just be fixed by a Magic Wand.

However, Rishi Sunak is extremely unpopular at the moment and if he’s parachuted in then there will be numerous unhappy members, but there was also a time when people wanted to get rid of Boris Johnson because there were loads of turncoats and now it’s occurring again with Liz Truss.

Do we really have time to keep switching leaders with war looming, power cuts, growing inflation and recession et cetera? It won’t actually matter who’s in charge even if Labour were to get in, they’re all the same.