Give PM time to prove her plan can work, urges Hunt

FORMER Conservative leadership contender Jeremy Hunt urged anxious Tory colleagues to give Liz Truss time to prove that her economic growth plan can work.

- Jonathan Walker and David Williamson

With some MPs apparently already talking about forcing Ms Truss out of Number 10 and appointing a new Prime Minister, Mr Hunt said: "I didn't vote for her myself. But she won the election fair and square and we have to give her time." 

However, he suggested Ms Truss's fate depended on a financial statement to be delivered by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng later this year, when the Government will explain how it plans to pay for tax cuts announced in the mini-budget.

Mr Hunt, a former Health Secretary, told GB News: "I think that you know in a couple of months time the markets will have settled down. We will have shown the country as Conservatives how we're going to balance the books because you have to do that.