Pressure mounts on Liz Truss ahead of Jeremy Hunt statement

Pressure is mounting connected the premier curate up of an exigency connection by her caller chancellor Jeremy Hunt to reassure fiscal markets implicit the government's economical plans.

Mr Hunt is expected to U-turn connected much of the governments' tax-cutting plans.

He is besides expected supply much clarity connected nationalist assemblage spending - 2 weeks earlier than planned.

It comes aft much Conservative MPs person been questioning however agelong Liz Truss tin stay successful Downing Street.

Mr Hunt is acceptable to marque an announcement connected the government's plans by lunchtime, followed by a connection successful the House of Commons successful the afternoon.

The chopped to National Insurance is expected to past arsenic it is already adjacent to passing done Parliament.

However, determination could beryllium changes to plans to chopped the basal complaint of income taxation from 20p to 19p.

On Friday, Ms Truss sacked her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and abandoned 1 of her flagship taxation policies to frost corp tax, successful effect to marketplace turmoil and absorption for her ain MPs.

Three Tory MPs - Crispin Blunt, Andrew Bridgen and Jamie Wallis - person since gone nationalist calling for the premier curate to go.

Many others are expressing concerns privately.

"It's done... we can't win," 1 minister, a Truss supporter, told the BBC, accepting they volition suffer their spot whenever a wide predetermination comes.

In conversations implicit the weekend, galore different Conservatives argued Ms Truss would person to permission bureau earlier the adjacent election.

Some believed she could bent connected for a fewer months but an expanding fig reason she has weeks oregon adjacent days left.

Under existent Conservative Party rules, Ms Truss is harmless from a nary assurance ballot by Tory MPs to oust her for a year. The rules could beryllium changed, nevertheless sources suggested to the BBC that the 1922 committee of backbench MPs who acceptable the rules would similar the premier curate to leap earlier she is pushed.

Some Tory MPs who privation Ms Truss to spell person suggested putting guardant conscionable 1 campaigner to regenerate her, with MPs choosing their adjacent person successful a mates of days without consulting members, arsenic would usually happen.

The 3 names being wide discussed are Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, Commons person Penny Mordaunt and erstwhile Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who was Ms Truss's main rival successful the past enactment election.

However, determination is small statement implicit who should instrumentality implicit from Ms Truss if she is removed.

In an effort to triumph implicit her critics, Ms Truss volition code the 100-strong One Nation radical of centrist Tory MPs, arsenic good arsenic clasp talks with furniture ministers.

Other backbench MPs volition besides beryllium invited to talk with the premier curate and caller chancellor.

Former curate Victoria Atkins, who is simply a subordinate of the One Nation group, said bringing successful Mr Hunt arsenic chancellor was a "very bully step".

But asked if Ms Truss could pb her enactment into the adjacent election, presently acceptable for 2 years time, she did not springiness a ringing endorsement.

"She is the premier curate astatine the moment, we volition not person an predetermination for the adjacent mates of years. I privation her to get america backmost onto the close track, I privation her to reiterate our concerns for our constituents and for compassionate One Nation values," Ms Atkins told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"If she's capable to bring those values to the fore past I'm precise blessed for her to bash that."

However, erstwhile lawman premier curate Damian Green, president of the One Nation group, said helium did privation Ms Truss to pb the enactment into the adjacent election.

"The premier curate has been elected. It would beryllium champion for the party… if we don't person different enactment campaign," helium told Today.

"And truthful the perfect result for the state astir importantly, but besides arsenic it happens for the Conservative Party, is for the authorities to succeed."