Chris Mason: Can Liz Truss salvage her premiership?

A authorities that has hardly begun is confronted by unfastened questions astir its imminent end.

That is the astonishing information astatine Westminster, truthful spectacularly has Liz Truss cratered her authorization with her ain MPs.

In the abbreviated term, she seeks to salvage her premiership and her programme for government, oregon astatine slightest immoderate parts of it that tin bid the assurance of her enactment and the fiscal markets.

Her critics accidental waiting until the extremity of the period to denote her plans is unsustainable.

Meanwhile Tory MPs speculate astir her aboriginal and that of her chancellor.

Could Kwasi Kwarteng beryllium the autumn feline for the chaos, immoderate ask.

Could helium beryllium sacked, oregon resign?

"The happening is, if she does that she removes a lightning rod, and you cognize what happens then? The lightning volition deed her instead," 1 MP sceptical of that thought said.

But others suggest the erstwhile Chancellor Sajid Javid could beryllium brought successful arsenic a replacement and Ms Truss could effort to recast her full authorities and agenda, accepting that Plan A has imploded connected interaction with reality.

And others ponder Liz Truss's aboriginal successful Downing Street, acutely alert that removing a premier curate who doesn't privation to spell isn't easy, and peculiarly truthful erstwhile a divided enactment would request to unite astir a azygous replacement to debar a lengthy enactment contention lasting months.

One elder Conservative MP told maine Ms Truss had recovered herself successful a maze. "And each mode we turn, there's a ceramic wall," they said.

Others reason she has tanked and bombed with specified unimaginable velocity she has to go.

But they're not definite who could regenerate her, oregon how.

Some speech of an "assembly of elders" arsenic it was enactment to me, but past gag darkly that galore of those elders either near Parliament oregon were thrown retired of the Conservative Party nether Boris Johnson.

They past ponder that with truthful galore erstwhile ministers, including 2 erstwhile premier ministers connected the backbenches, determination is plentifulness of acquisition to beryllium drawn on, if a Conservative authorities of each the talents could beryllium cobbled together.

Could defeated enactment campaigner and erstwhile chancellor Rishi Sunak enactment with chap defeated campaigner Penny Mordaunt?

What astir Boris Johnson? Theresa May? William Hague?

I've heard each these names being mentioned arsenic the aboriginal is pondered.

So backmost to the present and now.

A U-turn looks inevitable, truthful erstwhile volition it happen?

Can it hold until the chancellor's economical connection 2 weeks connected Monday?

Right now, that seems a long, agelong mode off.

"It is choppy and mightiness get choppier. But we'll find a mode done it," 1 of Ms Truss's squad told me.

The happening is, it mightiness not beryllium up to them.

A authorities not yet six weeks aged faces an existential threat.