Anais Cordoba
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09:37, October 17, 2022
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since the beginning of September, Liz Truss already seems to be in trouble and could find it difficult to keep Downing Street. Tory MPs are debating whether to keep Liz Truss as Prime Minister of the country. She had however tried to calm the revolt by dismissing her Minister of Finance, without success.
Already the beginning of the end for Liz Truss? The British Prime Minister, who arrived in Downing Street on September 5, has lost all authority over the elected Conservatives, who blame her for a series of reversals in her economic plan. Liz Truss is clearly being pushed out.
“Managing the estate”
It is a sequence never seen in British politics which took place on a television set on Sunday evening. Only six weeks after the appointment of the new Conservative Prime Minister, a member of his own camp calls for his departure publicly. “It’s game over. It’s just a question of how to manage his succession. We now need to put in place a transition to a collaboration between the talents of Richie Sonnac, Penny Mordaunt and Jeremy Hunt, who would occupy the three positions the most important of the government”, declared the deputy on television.
A highly criticized economic plan
Two other elected Conservatives joined the call of their colleagues. Liz Truss had however tried to calm the revolt among the Tories by dismissing his Minister of Finance, in vain. His party mainly blames him for his economic plan, which has created panic in the financial markets. The humiliating reversals she had to make and her poor performance in front of the press in recent days have undermined her authority. Some of her closest ministers acknowledge, anonymously, that it is only a matter of time before the end of the short reign of Liz Truss.