British Prime Minister Liz Truss apologized on Wednesday for the mistakes after abandoning an economic plan that caused chaos in the markets, but at the same time rejected calls from the opposition for her resignation.
Terrace said – during a heated debate in the House of Commons – that she has been in office for less than two months and has managed, as she puts it, to put a ceiling on electricity bills. “I apologize for mistakes in the past, but in these circumstances it would be right to make changes,” she added.
When asked by opposition Labor Party leader Keir Stammer about the justification for keeping her in office, the Prime Minister, leader of the Conservative Party, replied that she was a fighter and could not retract her duty.
And Trass has abandoned most of the provisions of its economic program, which includes corporate tax cuts, and in the face of the unrest caused by this plan in the markets, was forced – last Friday – to fire Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarting and was replaced by a former minister Foreign Affairs and Health Jeremy Hunt. In another sign of her declining popularity, a new Ipsos poll released today showed that 53% of British voters think the prime minister should step down as prime minister, with 80% of them accusing her government of being behind the high cost of living.
An opinion poll by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, released on Monday, showed the opposition Labor Party 36 percentage points ahead of the ruling Conservative Party in the UK, with the Labor Party’s percentage of popular support reaching 56 per cent. While the Conservative Party received only 20%.
Meanwhile, the biggest jump in UK food prices since 1980 sent inflation up to 10.1% in September last year from 9.9% in August last year.
