Another day of crisis for Liz Truss and her government.
Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons [credit: House of Commons/PA Wire]During a gruelling session of PMQs she twice echoed the words of former Labour MP Peter Mandelson, saying: “I’m a fighter, not a quitter.”
In an apparent dig at the PM, she wrote: “The business of government relies upon people accepting responsibility for their mistakes. Her appearance in the Commons came as inflation returned to a 40-year high of 10.1 per cent, with Tory MPs – the majority of whom appeared muted for much of the session – eager to see if she had the moxie to survive in the bear pit.
Elsewhere some of Ms Truss’s closest allies moved to back her publicly, while others revealed they had submitted letters calling for a confidence vote in her leadership.
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