the long term ability to fund an increase in defence spending will depend on stability in the economic situation and a healthily growing economy. cheering and applause. spending cuts and tax rises is not what liz truss planned when she entered number 10 last month, but the economic and political turmoil that followed her first chancellor s mini budget has forced a fundamental rethink, plunging her premiership into chaos. um. yesterday, the smiles had gone and the prime minister s appearance in number 10 did little to convince her tory party critics that she is up to the job. some believe herfuture now hinges on the chancellor s budget at the end of this month. if that package doesn t work and the markets are still reacting all over the place, then i think she is in considerable trouble. she s admitted mistakes, and if she admits those mistakes and puts them right, then i think she could conceivably get beyond this.
appearance in number 10 did little to convince her tory party critics that she is up to the job. some believe herfuture now hinges on the chancellor s budget at the end of this month. if that package doesn t work and the markets are still reacting all over the place, then i think she is in considerable trouble. she s admitted mistakes, and if she admits those mistakes and puts them right, then i think she could conceivably get beyond this. but i emphasise could, because i think it all depends on that financial statement on 31 october. the opposition said the prime minister s government was now clinging on. they didn tjust tank the british economy, they also clung on clung on as they made the pound sink, clung on as they took our pensions to the brink of collapse, clung on as they pushed the mortgages and bills