Liz Truss faces a tough clash with Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions today, having been forced to junk her entire economic strategy and with her leadership in peril.
The Prime Minister will face the Labour leader for the first time since her new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt ripped up her economic plans, including policies for tax cuts and increased public borrowing, in a bid to get the public finances back on track and stabilise financial markets after weeks of turmoil following the mini-budget.
PMQ's will also come amid more gloomy news, as the Office of National Statistics announced this morning that inflation rose to 10.1 per cent in September.
Ms Truss faces disquiet from Tory MPs over plans for public spending cuts across all departments, after Mr Hunt warned of decisions of 'eye-watering difficulty' to plug the government’s multibillion-pound financial black hole.
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