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Some MPs hoping PM can be replaced ‘within days’ – as talks on ‘coronation’ replacement continue

The ‘gallant lady’ with a sailor’s humour is hoping to replace Liz Truss but faces a tough ask in overcoming a wave of support for Rishi Sunak

James Heappey - who attends Cabinet and was sent out by Downing Street to defend the lame duck PM - admitted 'I don’t think there’s the opportunity to make any more mistakes'

Some British media are now gambling on embattled Prime Minister Liz Truss having a shorter shelf life than a fresh lettuce — just five days — after the utter failure of her mini-budget.

Truss is still officially in charge, but hardly seems to be in control.

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss was clinging to power on Monday after suffering the abject humiliation of being forced to U-Turn on much of the economic program she announced only last month.

In one of the biggest U-turns in political history, the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt scrapped almost all of the mini-Budget, which has plunged the economy into crisis

Mss Truss swerved a House of Commons grilling on her decision to sack Kwasi Kwarteng

Truss’s decline from shiny new prime minister to leader in name only continues, the last 24 hours underlining just how weak she is

British Prime Minister Liz Truss is trying to rescue her premiership after the tax cut debacle caused a fiscal crisis and gave Labour a gargantuan polling lead over her Conservatives. But after that calamitous start, analysts doubt the Tory Party will keep Truss in power for long, even if it…

New chancellor tells Commons there will be tax rises and spending cuts, as PM dodges urgent question