UK's PM Liz Truss faces TV inquisition ahead of tense Tory conference

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LONDON - After a week of market turmoil, dismal headlines and disastrous polls, British Prime Minister Liz Truss faces a TV grilling Sunday at the start of her restive Conservative party's annual conference. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Markets tanked in response to the package, and the Bank of England staged an emergency intervention to bail out embattled pension funds, setting the stage for a difficult few days in Birmingham.

"I am going to do things differently. It involves difficult decisions and does involve disruption in the short term," she wrote in The Sun tabloid. One poll Friday by YouGov found that 51 per cent of Britons think that Ms Truss should resign - and 54 per cent want Mr Kwarteng to go. As it is, both Mr Sunak and former prime minister Boris Johnson are reportedly staying away from Birmingham.

Although both have ruled out a U-turn on their economic package, they conceded ground Friday by allowing the Office for Budget Responsibility to send Mr Kwarteng an initial independent costing score-card of it later next week.

 

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