Liz Truss he moves to try to save himself. According to the BBC, Time you Telegraphdismiss the Minister of the Economy, Kwasi Kwarteng, and backtracked again: raising corporate taxes to 25%, ignoring one of its key commitments, despite maintaining social cuts. He needed to act, once again on the brink. That’s the reason why Kwarteng returned prematurely to London from the IMF summit in Washington, where he took a good hit. The agency called on the UK “not to spread the pain” and “re-calibrate” its fiscal policy. With his announcement, the Prime Minister tried to buy time and calm things down.

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The insatiable Conservative Party has given ‘extra life’ to Liz Truss last week, it’s been a long time when it comes to England. He gave a speech at the ‘story’ congress held in Birmingham and was applauded to his feet, when it was hours before the dialectical knife flew among rumors of an internal “coup” to oust him. He’s been in office for a month. “You can trust me,” he told his ‘colleagues’. That was last Wednesday. Opening Time This Friday: ‘The Conservatives plan to replace Liz Truss with Rishi Sunak you Penny Mordaunt‘.

Sunak, former Minister of Economy, and Mordaunt, from Defence, have struggled to succeed Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street. On this occasion they will go hand in hand: the prime minister and ‘number 2’. Powerful party members are maneuvering to formalize the joint candidacy and force the process to remove Truss. Based on Time, would have the support of a “huge majority of Conservative MPs.” In fact, added the newspaper, more than twenty former ministers and senior officials are currently “intensifying their conversation” to ask premiere resign

“That would be a disaster”

The YouGov survey concluded that nearly half of the citizens who voted Tories in the last election they advocated Truss’ departure. 62% believe the party made the wrong decision in the primaries. This same company released another study last week that put Truss – it should be remembered that he has been prime minister since September 6 – under popularity, not since Johnson, not even from the Labor Party. Jeremy Corbynwho has the honor of being the politician who unites the greatest dissent.

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Truss has loyalists. They defend – this was recently done by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, james cleverly– that the consequences of the new changes – Truss is the fourth conservative leader in six years – would be “catastrophic”, especially for what critics understand that the prime minister is disruptive, in the case of the economy. “Truss said he would protect people and businesses from unprecedented increases in energy prices and he would,” Cleverly said. The warning may not be enough because the process is in progress.

Under party rules, Truss is left untouched for a year, but in practice, if a large number of MPs pressure the chair of the committee, Graham Bradyrelay attempts can be launched at any time.

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