Can Liz Truss front PMQs on Wednesday?

She’s being kept in place as a puppet PM until the divided factions can agree on a leader……..this may take some time ?

foxie48

Despite loathing the woman and despising everything she stands for, I hate to see anyone being publicly humiliated. I think the only reason she hasn't resigned is because she's been told not to. ATM, her resignation would probably lead to the complete disintegration of the Conservative party by internal fights or the demise of the party at the ballot box. Neither option is attractive to the Tories so she will be made to hang on until they think they can find someone who will keep the party together.

I agree.

Despite loathing the woman and despising everything she stands for, I hate to see anyone being publicly humiliated. I think the only reason she hasn't resigned is because she's been told not to. ATM, her resignation would probably lead to the complete disintegration of the Conservative party by internal fights or the demise of the party at the ballot box. Neither option is attractive to the Tories so she will be made to hang on until they think they can find someone who will keep the party together.

I do think that her rapid blinking indicates that the poor soul is in a very anxious state, and quite frankly delusional if she thinks that she is the best person to lead our beleaguered country.

Resignation is honestly her only option I think - at least she would go with some semblance of dignity.

She’s awful but, realistically, what else is she going to say ? She has to justify herself and it must be becoming harder and harder.

She says that she has gone " too far, too fast".
No acknowledgement of ....and completely in the wrong direction. Weasel words won't work!

I woke up this morning hoping to find that she had gone.... but no.

After that interview I've stopped feeling sorry for her.

Tories need to bite the bullet and go to the country. They won't win the next GE whatever happens.

In the interview she blinked about 200 times a minute and used the word “deliver” about 400 times. A very weak performance.

However thick her skin it’s a humiliation of the highest order, Hara Kiri has been committed for less, let’s hope that she falls on her sword metaphorically and resigns.

Her future as a Tory leader is zero, stand aside and start afresh and get back to as near normal as possible, the 1922 committee must have told her that in no uncertain terms.

There is no good reason to feel sorry for her. Her reckless behaviours has endangered the UK economy, forcing up mortgage rates and will undoubtedly lead to cuts in the support for energy bills, cuts to the triple lock on the old age pension, a fall in the pound and a host of other spending cuts hinted at by Hunt today. The sooner the hyenas bring her down the better.

Why do I keep getting a mental picture of a pack of hyenas surrounding a wounded antelope ?

She has given an interview. It has just been on the BBC. I do wish they would stop saying, "we have the lowest unemployment level" as if they have done something clever.

Brexit means we simply do not have enough people to fill the jobs. Add to that those who are sick and therefore don't count as unemployed during the worst time I can remember for the NHS. Then add to those who are burnt out and have just left the workplace, managing to live on whatever they had put aside for the future. They don't count as unemployed either. However, both some of the currently sick and the burnout could work if the circumstances were different.

I agree.

I don't feel sorry for any of them. I feel sorry for the people who thought they were getting help with bills and have planned accordingly. I feel sorry for the people who are on benefits and state pensions, and thought that they would get an increase that might not now materialise. I feel sorry for people who are having to use food banks and go onto pre-paid meters, even after working a full week.

I could continue my list, but it would labour the point, and the bottom line is that I'm not wasting my sympathy on Truss or Kwarteng - it was their own hubris that led to their humiliation.

I’ve got a midday hairdressing appointment on Wednesday. I’m rather pleased that I’ll miss it. I don’t think I could watch. It will be cringeworthy.

I don't feel sorry for her.

It was Kwasi Kwarteng I felt sorry for - getting the boot for just doing what LT wanted. If she'd done the decent thing, she'd have stepped down at the same time as him.

What is it about these PMs, that they try to drag it out when they must see their days are numbered? Boris did exactly the same.

The best moment from today’s PMQs

I can confirm that the Prime Minister is not hiding under a desk

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DaisyAnne

Hunt has said there is no guarantee that he will stick to the triple lock on pensions.

It's like a wretched hokey cokey. First you get it then you don't and then you get it again ... ... and then they just don't know.

If he doesn’t retain the triple lock the 19% of people who say they will vote Tory at the next election will dwindle to almost none. Even Urmstongran will be disillusioned.

DaisyAnne

Hunt has said there is no guarantee that he will stick to the triple lock on pensions.

It's like a wretched hokey cokey. First you get it then you don't and then you get it again ... ... and then they just don't know.

If he doesn’t retain the triple lock the 19% of people who say they will vote Tory at the next election will dwindle to almost none. Even Urmstongran will be disillusioned.

Hunt has said there is no guarantee that he will stick to the triple lock on pensions.

It's like a wretched hokey cokey. First you get it then you don't and then you get it again ... ... and then they just don't know.

MawThe Merrier I did think for a moment that you were emulating the awful Miriam M.
It will indeed be a difficult time for Liz Truss if she remains in place as PM and has to front PMQ’s on Wednesday.What she can say, I have no idea.

One 4-letter"f" word

Frit

It's beyond farce that Truss is not turning up at Parliament today, of all days.

Maybe she's working on her resignation speech.

IMO, her husband should tell her enough is enough and to throw in the towel.

Penny Mourdant is taking Labours Urgent Question on the economy this afternoon,

Why not the PM or her deputy?