'She's listened, she's changed, she's been willing to do that most difficult thing in politics which is to change tack.'
Measures already jettisoned from the £45bn package of unfunded tax cuts announced last month include scrapping the top income tax rate, and a freeze in corporation tax.
Instead, he urged Conservative MPs to come together and back Ms Truss, noting that the "worst thing would be another protracted leadership campaign". The former minister Crispin Blunt was the first, telling Channel 4 that "the game is up and it's now a question as to how the succession is managed". A letter shared on Twitter said: "Enough is enough. I have written to [her] to ask her to stand down as she no longer holds the confidence of this country."
But he told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House that doing so would require the support of a "large majority" of Conservative MPs - "probably sixty to seventy percent". In his BBC interview, Mr Hunt said every government department would be asked to make savings, ahead of the 31 October economic statement.
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