Truss faces the Commons with his future in question

The British Prime Minister, the conservative Liz Truss, faces this Wednesday the weekly session of control of the Government in the House of Commons that is expected to be of high voltage after last Monday her new Minister of the Economy, Jeremy Hunt, annulled almost everything his economic plan to stabilize the markets.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
19 October 2022 Wednesday 04:30
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Truss faces the Commons with his future in question

The British Prime Minister, the conservative Liz Truss, faces this Wednesday the weekly session of control of the Government in the House of Commons that is expected to be of high voltage after last Monday her new Minister of the Economy, Jeremy Hunt, annulled almost everything his economic plan to stabilize the markets.

The head of the Government, whose future is in question due to the mistakes made since she took office on September 6, will have to answer questions from the leader of the Labor Party, Keir Starmer, as well as from her own deputies, concerned about the direction of the government.

His performance before the lower house will also serve to measure his resilience in a hostile context, in which he has lost authority within the Conservative Party and is at a low in voting intention polls.

Although Truss has refused to resign for now, many of her parliamentary colleagues are currently studying how to replace her, although they have not yet found a consensus candidate.

Hunt, from a different conservative faction than Truss, took office last Friday to replace the dismissed Kwasi Kwarteng, in an attempt to shore up the Executive - trying to avoid early elections that the "Tories" would lose - and promote financial stability .

To achieve this, he annulled practically the entire "growth" strategy presented on September 23 by Kwarteng in line with Truss, based on tax cuts, which mainly benefited companies and the financial sector, without details of how the debt.

Hunt has reversed most of the tax cuts, limited the scope of energy aid and has warned that he expects to announce big cuts in public spending in a statement scheduled for October 31, which is feared to have effects on pensions. and social subsidies to the poorest, among other things.