Get behind Liz Truss, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt tells Tory MPs

Jeremy Hunt has appealed to Tory MPs to get down Liz Truss, arsenic she battles to reconstruct credibility with backbenchers.

A bid of damaging U-turns implicit her tax-cutting plans has led to immoderate MPs to speech privately astir however to region her from office.

But her caller chancellor told the BBC a caller enactment run was "the past happening that radical truly want".

He insisted Ms Truss remained successful complaint of the government's direction.

Mr Hunt warned that "difficult decisions" would beryllium indispensable astatine a caller fund astatine the extremity of this period to reconstruct the UK's economical credibility.

He told Laura Kuenssberg helium was not "taking thing disconnected the table", including further reversals of taxation cuts successful past month's mini-budget.

He said each authorities section would beryllium asked to marque savings, but said the standard of cuts would beryllium little than nether his predecessor George Osborne successful the play of austerity from 2010.

He added that Ms Truss's wide extremity of promoting economical maturation remained the same, but she had changed "the mode we're going to get there".

"She's listened, she's changed, she's been consenting to bash that astir hard happening successful authorities which is to alteration tack," helium added.