Can Liz Truss survive as PM - expert explains 

I've never in my middle aged life seen Anybody fail their way upwards as much as Truss. She's not fit to run a bath, let alone run the UK.

From 'Britannia Unchained' to 'Britannia Unhinged', in a few short weeks.

She sets low standards but fails to achieve them

Always a pleasure to listen to Gary’s fantastic analysis.

The truth is, Liz failed to understand that we are not in the 70s or 80s sort of financial era. We are in a totally different once-in-a-lifetime era with war and covid and everything else that spiked inflation and keeps doing so. She should have adopted rishi Sunak's economic policy. But instead, she thought that she knew better than anyone and wanted to force through her policy by taking a chance just because no matter what her policy did to the country, she would still be well-off financially and her life is secured with lifetime pensions after all these had ended- she is a PM after all!

Excellent analysis of the current government position. I think that “U-Turn Truss” will try and save her position with several u-turns over the next few weeks and ultimately she’ll be replaced. The Tories got themselves into this mess and the country into the mess it’s in, and they deserve to pay dearly for it in the next election.

Garry keep going. Always great watching your reporting!

Great interview. Both speakers clear, focussed, intelligent questions, informed well considered expert answers. Thank you.

Nope, Truss will be gone by the new year. Shortest ever PM, quite an achievement.

25:22 Hilarious that Tory MPs don't trust Tory Party members to choose another leader to replace Truss! 😂

She's toast. Gone by Christmas.

Liz “zero starter homes” Truss. What on earth else did anyone expect?

Doctor: How are you today? Truss: We are absolutely focused on growth. Doctor: Let's get back to your husband's erection issue. Truss: It is caused by Putin's appalling war in Ukraine. Doctor: What are you talking about. Truss: Interest rates have been going up globally. Doctor: Screw you

She used to work in my local Dixons Electrical Shop as a Temporary, Assistant, Deputy, Manager - that worked out just as well as this shambles!

In Truss we did not trust, in Trust we are bust. Adapted from slogan about President Hoover in 1932, widely blamed for failing to tackle the Depression (retrospective spoiler alert- he was to blame).

Truss should put herself out of her misery by calling an election.

General election please.

Really informative and unbiased interview..It is really good to listen to a political expert like Gary who does know his oninons👏🏾

Liz Truss is actually the best thing that’s happened to the Tory party for years. She’s handed Labour a lifetime’s Christmas and birthday presents all at once 😂😂

The war has nothing to to with Liz, market crash, or Tories' ways of "governing" or rather making mess out of absolutely everything..

Probably good for Rishi in not getting elected. In these circumstances, any PM will have to face lot of heat. Truss and her chancellor made it lot worse I think. If there is another election sooner or later, probably Rishi might lead but dont think its possible to win

Imagine a lifetime of political ambition and unwavering adherence to ideology, carrying you, inexorably, all the way to being the answer to a pub quiz question…

Garry Gibbon doing his usual excellent job. He may not know chess very well - but 'zugswang' (inability to move without making your position worse) is exactly where Truss is at!

Everybody knew she would be a disaster. It is beyond comprehension that the Tories would vote her in as leader. I her time as a minister she has shown no talent, intelligence or vision. The queen died after meeting Liz Truss as PM. Is there a connection?

Good analysis, thank you very much. And no, she can't survive this. In any case, the new wallpaper is already peeling off the walls in No 10.

Gone by Christmas

This is my expert opinion "Thick Lizzie is toast"!

As a monarch once said: "dear oh dear"

Boris pretended to be thick to get away with stuff... Truss doesn't have the luxury of pretending.

Who remembers the funky gibbon by the Goodies?

I was surprised that Rishi Sunak could get so far in contesting the position of Prime Minister given his ethnicity. Apparently it was still a bridge too far when the election comes down to the wider Tory party members not to say the British general public.

This kind of quality news is so satisfying. Well done Channel 4

Liz Truss and before her Boris Johnson are perfect examples of the Peter Principle: individuals promoted beyond their ability.

Gary is a fantastic reporter 🤘

The (untrue) narrative of conservative economic competency has been lost. Liz Truss is a great gift to labour and the country!!

Suella Braveman is a disastrous choice for Home Minister!!

I'm no expert, but as we don't like expert's I'm fully qualified to say she 's toast. 😁 one month maybe two not much more than that.. Kwazy to...

Quite why Truss and Kwarteng aren't answering questions from behind prison bars, right now, I'll never know.

Gary Gibbon is one of my all time TV Journalist heroes, always dignified with clear intelligent analysis .Sadly last of a dying breed.

Gary one the few journalists who has integrity.

I'm mourning the desimation of the financial system by her hand!

Hopefully she wont get through this she clearly doesnt care about working people or the most vulnerable .

Truss - The Human Handgrenade Every department she ran was completely buggered up...................KABOOM !

spoiler alert- she doesn't

Interesting summary by Gary- considered and thoughtful as ever. Sometimes I quietly hope to see and hear more passion (and anger) put into this sort of chat, but I can understand a slightly 'muted' and restrained approach as Gary needs to have access to at least some Tories around Parliament and doesn't want to reduce the chances of that. Thanks for this article.

Don't worry everyone, her magnificent charisma will see her through

As soon as your elected they want you out SMH sounds like America. Why would anyone want to be prime minister.

Great interview. Thank you!

Miss Truss, you have been awarded the Guiness Book of World Records Trophy for Being Mistrussted.

General Election ASAP!!!!!!!!

This aged well

I worked with disabled students for 5 years and it was tough work but i matured and felt privileged. I was stabbed as a teen and my mum wasn't around because she was renting, working, raising two sons and studying to improve our prospects. She should be there and when they say they understand, it's just words. Now i am a Cambridge University employee and I've contributed a lot to my employers and my community. To me, they are all out of touch, wasteful and an indulgent waste of money. I don't think we can ignore or discard the vigorous democratic system but i do think we could elect genuine, connected, invested citizens instead of just London elites Why can't we extract so much (growth) from the economy (workers) as other 3rd world countries? Because... We pay a minimum wage and treat ppl like human beings.. we make enough and will make enough, unless you're a greedy politician

Excellent.

The -4% drag on the economy caused by Brexit doesn't help either, but iit seems no-one dares mention this.

The people with money , in Britain, must help the people without money, in Britain.

Keep going Gary!!

As a life long Tory voter I think Truss has had a terrible start to her term. From her picks of cabinet, her shunning of more capable MPs and her agreement of the mini budget she has got every important decision wrong. During the debates I saw that Sunak talked more sense but didn't expect Truss to be such a poor decision maker. I can't see how she can survive this

What does Britain actually export now that manufacturing is pretty much gone? Canada wiped out their manufacturing sector at the same time as Thatcher, now we rely mostly upon raw resources. Britain doesn't have much for raw resources--what do they sell abroad?

If Liz Survived as PM , The entire Economy will get Collapses. The country will start heading towards recession. Global economic slowdown is the cherry on a cake for UK. Higher inflation, new lows £vs$ . U turn doesn't restore the Confidence in the market . BOE should increase interest rate to bring down inflation . Cost of living will get rises. UK households will become more vulnerable. Liz truss must resign to restore trust and Confidence in the market Penny or rishi are The best candidates for number 10 .

Truss's Premiership reminds me of that warship missile launch that cork-screwed crazily close to the ship in a complete about-turn back towards the ship.

Brilliant, thank you. Excellent and insightful questions with thorough and honest answers.

Cruella's departure is the best thing that has happened to Truss so far.

The red flags (arrogance and rigidity) were evident during the campaign, plus the lack of presentation skills not to mention that Rishi outperformed her in all debates, and won the MP vote. The current situation is no surprise.

She should resign

The problem is liz truss plan is a long term plan but unfortunately has short term consequences.

Thank you gentlemen. A very informative conversation, well done. Comment from an interested Australian.

If Boris Johnson was never fit to hold political office, let alone high political office, Liz Truss is clearly no different. Few modern politicians should be politicians and pretty much no Conservative MPs should be anywhere near British politics. The nearest that Conservative MPs should be to Westminster would Wormwood Scrubs, Bronzefield or Broadmoor.

I'm so surprised she's in trouble. It's almost as if no one voted for her....

I am sure many people would say that in comparison to Liz Truss’s performance so far, Eddie the Eagle was the world’s best ski jumper or the man who was the subject of a film recently the world’s best golfer. But at least the 2 sportsmen did not damage the country’s economy and seemed to have inspired Britain more than Ms.Truss has to date.

Another expert…Just what the world needs

I always thought if sacked or resigned you leave . No in government you sit on the back bench . Teresa may ? Mat Hancock? Boris johnson ? And many more it's time to get rid and bring in young people. When gone gone means leave altogether

If Truss loves cutting tax then reduce VAT to zero and increase income tax 5 Points at all bands. Who will gain the most? People who are the most needy in society. Who will lose the most? Those who can afford to lose. People on middle income could offset the loss through income tax to the gain in VAT gain.

Like Daniel Beddingfield she's gotta get through this. She's gotta get through this.

What an excellent interview!

Difficult inheritance???? She inherited a huge majority

The energy decision was NOT part of the budget. A week before, Gary do ur job get it right

Not an easy ride for anyone filling in the PM Shoes, running the country. It is not like running an organisation as a CEO. Investors want stability. Changing the PM again, is not a good idea at this moment.🧐 Give Ms Truss the space & time to settle in her job and support her, to get the job done.

Soon be gone ,she's aged 10 yrs in a week 😅

Sad , Liz singing 'we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when but it won't be at number 10'

GENERAL ELECTION NOW enough is enough get these muppets OUT

I love this woman. She’ll keep the bastards out for a generation 😊

Better call Daniel Bedingfield.

Dominic Cummings said that Truss was insane and unstable biy was he right 😮

There should be an inquiry about how Kwasi acted with consultation with PM or other relevant politicians

At this point shes changing the dictionary.. they will replace U-turn with u-truss....

The longer Liz is in power the more damage she does to the Tories. Keep her in and let's finish em

better question: how did Liz truss get into this?

Thank you.

I like the way the parliament of great Britain works ,the arguments is real,frank,not boring

_The Mad Cheese Lady..._ smash or pass? 😂😂😂

My feelings is she'll be gone soon, maybe even this Sunday. General Election in February? I think so... I am after all, a male psychic. 😎

🤞 it will be soon...look how long it took to get doris out... #liztruss do the decent thing and resign...you are not cut out for the pm job.. well no tory is tbh

She's only a few weeks in and has already handed over all the power to a Chancellor she appointed two days ago. It's not going well for Liz. The thing I think about is the small number of people who are directly responsible for this whole thing. Those Tory members who sat through months of Rishi Sunak telling them this would happen and months of deriding him for it. And now they're having to live their lives knowing that they have caused the mess he told them they would make. You have to have no sense of shame or embarrassment to be able to brush that off. I'd be thinking about it 24/7 if that was me.

Tory Death Spiral : good name for a band. 🎸

Love the rhyme of tenure with manure. 🙃

great commentaryvery basic and clear

We should give her a chance.

With Brexit and Trickling Down there are at least a couple of unicorns in Downing Street. Let's see if they breed more!

Let's Truss Truss. Like a broiler chicken. General election NOW.

I'd prefer it if she didn't survive as a person, let alone Prime Minister... Assuming you can call her a 'person'.