Most MPs say situation is unsustainable but it remains sustainable as long as they remain unsure about how to act
In the course of 12 hours on Wednesday, multiple crises hit Liz Truss’s government which in normal times would have each individually caused a long-running scandal. Now they come so thick and fast, something that happened at 12pm is barely remembered by 7pm. Yet the prime minister clings on.
Just after noon, at PMQs the prime minister directly contradicted her new chancellor and said the “triple lock” on the state pension was safe. News broke that one of her most trusted and senior aides was suspended after a toxic briefing war in the Sunday papers.
