By Ben Kerrigan-
Former foreign secretary and Boris Johnson Ally, Michael Gove has said it is a matter of when, not if the prime minister leaves office, as he warned the public to expect “a hell of a lot of pain in the next two months”.
The former levelling up secretary said “we are going through hell” and need “tough economic medicine” to reduce inflation and recover the economy from the damage of Ms Truss’s mini-budget.
He added: “The question for any leader is what happens when the programme or the platform on which you secured the leadership has been shredded.”
Ever since the disastrous economic policies of Liz Truss’s government which saw her sack her new chancellor, Kwasi Kwartenfgwho was originally touted as the brains of her government who would restore stability to the British economy, her grip on leadership has been weakening with every passing day.Reports that Mr. Kwarteng was actually implementing policies compatible by Ms Truss herself, and has made it more ironic that he had to be sacrificed in an attempt to save her political career.
However, the decision only worsened her authourity after she took on Jeremy Hunt, a staunch ally of Rushi Sunak, who was the archrival of the prime minister doing the last leadership contest to select the successor of former tory leader, Boris Johnson.
The choice of Mr. Hunt was a political strategy to unite the party by selecting an experienced politician from a different faction of the party, but the credibility of the policies she established dropped even more as the new chancellor practically shred almost every aspect of the policy.
Mr. Hunt has insisted the prime minister , who has vowed to lead the conservative party to the next elections, is still in charge.
Several other mps are seriously plotting to have her removed, while her own supporters are desperately trying to calm the storm.
Alarm about her ability to effectively govern the country were already being sounded before her first day in government, with her fierce critics accusing her of lacking empathy, and not being bright, despite her having an impressive Oxford degree.
The economic turbulence that rocked the markets within the first month of her leadership, has convinced many mps she lacks what it takes to save the country and the party. The idea of another change in leadership in itself weakens the party’s chances if an election were to be called anytime soon. Tories would rather avoid another election anytime soon, and regroup with the hope of winning the electorate by regaining public trust, much of which has been lost ever since partygate, and dropped to disastrous lows.
Mr. Hunt has so far restored some business optimism and calmed the turmoil a but, but the prime minister’s critics within her party are working to hard to see her out as quickly as possible. The pressure mounting against the prime minister has become unbearable for her, some feel she should be afforded a chance to see how how things shape up under her new chancellor
Earlier, Downing Street revealed that Ms Truss was no longer committed to increasing state pensions in line with inflation as her new chancellor seeks to cut government spending in a departure from the prime minister’s failed growth strategy..