and in early september, it was the turn of liz truss. i am honoured to take on this responsibility. weeks later, at its annual conference, the tory party chair said liz truss was its greatest asset to win the next election. she is the woman who will get britain moving. that, though, is not going to happen any more. wow, one of the shortest lived premierships ever. i liz truss s time is over, when it had onlyjust begun. hello, welcome. well, this is unexpected. not, of course, being here for a new series looking at the biggest stories of the week, ijust hadn t necessarily factored in doing our first episode on the day the prime minister resigns. but here we are, and across next 30 minutes this is the story of the fall of liz truss. because it has been quite a week. hello, hi guys. we are probably still a few minutes late. 0h, are you? 0k. we will reverse almost all the tax measures. gone, gone. a complete reversal. gone, gone, gone. clearly trussonomics has gone. he has locked
not so, said the defence ministerjames heappey. my sense is there are dozens of colleagues in the parliamentary party who are gravely concerned over the way the last few weeks have gone, but they like me recognise that this is not the time to be changing leader again. as we now know, it is the time for the tories to be changing leader again, and even on tuesday some of its mps seemed to be hoping for that. the mp robert largan shared a blog post titled, the dangers of dumpster fires. he went on. but to borrow from cnn s jake tapper, this is becoming a hot mess inside a dumpsterfire inside a train wreck. and no one seems sure what to do. meanwhile the work of government went on, including new laws on protests.