United Kingdom PM Liz Truss is still in charge, says Chancellor of Exchequer Hunt

LONDON: Jeremy Hunt has insisted that Liz Truss is still in charge despite her premiership looking increasingly in peril, as he warned of further public spending cuts and failed to rule out more U-turns on her disastrous mini-budget, a media report said.

The new UK chancellor, now widely seen as the most powerful man in the government since he took over from the sacked Kwasi Kwarteng, has buried a series of flagship policies that brought Truss to power, The Guardian reported.

"The Prime Minister is in charge," he told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, even though her authority has been seriously undermined by her decision to allow him to tear up her economic agenda in a bid to calm the markets and mutinous Tory MPs, the report said. Hunt claimed that the Prime Minister had changed, as he defended her credibility as leader.

Asked why people should trust what she or the government said, he replied: "Because she's listened. She's changed. She's been willing to do that most difficult thing in politics, which is to change tack. What we're going to do is to show not just what we want, but how we're going to get there." (IANS)

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