British Prime Minister prime_liztrussTruss is set to address lawmakers in parliament on Wednesday ECR_Newswatch
Truss is set to face hostile questions from Tory as well as opposition MPs in a likely febrile House of Commons, less than 48 hours after new finance minister Jeremy Hunt dismembered her flagship tax plans.
A separate survey of party members found less than two months after electing her Tory leader and prime minister, a majority now think she should go. Truss last week staged two humiliating U-turns, scrapping planned tax cuts for the richest earners and on company profits, and fired her close ally Kwasi Kwarteng as finance minister.
Opposition parties are demanding she stand down and a general election -- not due for two years -- is held."Many people now feel that the real risk now is carrying on with this lot."Under current party rules Truss cannot be challenged by a no-confidence vote in her first year, but speculation is rife the rules could be changed to allow for a ballot.
Truss apologised for going"too far and too fast" in her government's mini-budget in a BBC interview Monday -- as well as insisting she was going nowhere.
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