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Andrew Neil said the Prime Minister has “weeks rather than months” in Number 10 as she is “out of her depth” when it comes to economics. Liz Truss has been under pressure for near a month over the economic uncertainty sparked by her former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng left the UK markets struggling to cope. Mr Neil warned attempts to placate investors, and her own MPs, have failed as markets need “tougher discipline”.
Mr Neil told Good Morning Britain that, regardless of party rules, the Conservatives “will find a way to get rid of her.”
He said: “She has weeks, in my view, rather than months.
“There is no purpose to her. I don’t think she can survive, what is the point of a Prime Minister who’s not actually the Prime Minister?
“Jeremy Hunt is the de facto Prime Minister at the moment.”
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Mr Sunak’s former adviser Douglas McNeill said Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s statement will be a chance for the Government to demonstrate a “united front” in the House of Commons.
Mr McNeill, who was Mr Sunak’s adviser during his tenure as chancellor from February 2020 until July this year, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think one lingering doubt that arose over the weekend was the fact that Jeremy Hunt wasted no time in borrowing Truss-onomics, good and proper, in his media appearances.
“There was a bit of a suspicion that he’d gone further than the Prime Minister might have wished – he certainly seemed to go further than I thought she did in her press conference on Friday, although that was a relatively brief affair of course, so it was hard to get a full sense of her thinking.
“But nevertheless, the suspicion exists I think that he went a bit further than she would have wished him to, so today’s announcement is a chance to dispel this impression.”
Mr Hunt will be delivering a statement to the Commons outlining his plan for the economy on Monday morning.
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