The British prime minister, cornered by the fiasco of her fiscal plan and the ‘tory’ collapse in the polls
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has tendered her resignation to Prime Minister Liz Truss, according to The Guardian newspaper. The resignation comes after a turbulent week for the premier marked by the failure of her economic strategy and her fiscal proposal.
Braverman, a former attorney general, took over her current role with Truss’s rise to power a little over a month ago. Both have held a meeting in which the head of the Interior has presented her resignation, according to BBC sources that disassociate her from an alleged internal malaise.
Truss’s situation begins to be critical. Just a week ago she was forced to reverse her tax cut. The value of the pound sterling plummeted after its announcement of lower taxes on the highest incomes and the Bank of England was forced to intervene. As a consequence, Truss sacrificed her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, with whom she shares a neoliberal conception of economics.
Not only that. The Conservative Party is in free fall in the polls. Labor leads them by 36 points in the latest published polls, the biggest gap since Tony Blair’s victory in 1997.
The disillusionment with the new leader – she has barely been in office for six weeks – extends from party members to the parliamentary group and the conservative press. A majority of 55% of affiliates believes that she should resign against the 38% who advocate her continuation despite her failed economic policy.
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