If the prime minister English Liz Truss to assume that his first weekly audience with King Charles III would offer respite from a week of political catastrophe and economic devastation is wrong.

It took 15 seconds of video of the meeting at Buckingham Palace last night for the king to make matters worse. When Truss bowed and said, “Your Majesty,” Carlos replied: “Here again?”

Look: King Charles III will be crowned on May 6, 2023 at Westminster Abbey.

And while the prime minister managed to reply: “This is a great pleasure”, the new king could only mumble: “Honey; Oh Buyung After all…”

The clip, which comes after another day of turmoil in economic markets and a conspiracy of rebellion in a Conservative Party caucus, quickly went viral.

Dr Jennifer Cassidy, professor of diplomacy at the University of Oxford, describes it as “A scene from office [la serie]…political awkwardness and unintentional comedy at its best”.

Skeleton, weakened

Criticism of the prime minister is growing within his own parliamentary majority, where some conservative deputies have already begun scrambled names to replace him just a month after he arrived at the office.

Several “Conservative MPs are investigating a replacement candidate for (Minister of Finance) Kwasi Kwarteng and maybe even Liz Truss,” he told the Times. BBC on Thursday Paul Goodman, former MP and editor-in-chief of ConservativeHome, a website highly influential on the British right.

“All kinds of names are randomized”he added, referring to Rishi SunakTruss’ former main rival in the race to Downing Street, and even to Boris Johnsoncontroversial prime minister he replaced last month.

Truss has been in power for 37 days and is increasingly being questioned. The massive tax cuts he promised in late September with no clear funding sent financial markets into a panic and were met with skepticism and concern by some members of his party.

Although he remains on track for now, Conservative lawmakers have privately urged him to back down on some elements of his economic package, notably the scrapping of a planned corporate tax hike.

At Wednesday’s weekly Prime Minister Questioning Session, Truss, derided by the opposition Labor Party, he ruled out cutting public spending to finance his tax cuts, and repeated that he was counting on GDP growth to pull the country out of the crisis.

But relying on rapid growth in the UK economy, which is currently in danger of recession, is an illusionwarned a former adviser to the Bank of England.

“The only way this will work is if we assume that growth will pick up as the government wants. I think a lot of people see it as wishful thinking,” Martin Weale, now a professor of economics at King’s Business School, said. TimesRadio.

Despite the turmoil in markets and within his party, Downing Street said that Truss – who has backtracked on a key measure in his budget – it “focuses solely on the goal of growth through planned changes and reforms”.

However, the others didn’t rule that out will soon be forced to give a new turn to controversial measures.