Liz Truss tries to curb Cabinet squabbling amid backbench ‘coup’ 

She's the worst pm since the last one

8:35 Liz: "I think you're rewriting history here" Gary: "Well, your budget is being rewritten at the moment" Priceless.

She's finished, and so is the tory party.

If her "mini budget" caused this much turmoil, just imagine what her standard sized budgets will do....

This woman doesn't know what she's talking about, it's insane, her hand movements are robotic, her speech patterns are totally unnatural and manufactured, her inflections are wrong, and there is a lack of sincerity in anything she says.

Regardless of how many interviews took place in this room today and the questions posed, her responses are always exactly the same....

Millions worried about heating our homes now we worry whether we will still have one. Well done Liz Truss.

Let's take a moment to thank all the Tory voters for this disaster 👏👏👏👏

The Guardian has labeled this, a "Trussterfuck". 😅

Our great leader... She's got the charisma of a dust particle

is she heading towards the quickest no-confidence vote ever?

It's insanity speaking with her. Repeating the same answers

If she really cared about the British people, democracy and really believed what she's saying, she'd call a general election.

Poor Liz is just so out of her depth.

Oh, Gary, you are an excellent interviewer. Top notch!

My little girls talking doll has more pre-programmed responses than Liz Truss does.

Gary is killing it. Great interviewer

12 years in power, so who created the problems they now face.

This is a dead woman walking

I'm sure I'd feel more confident in our prospects if Gary were PM and Liz was the journalist.

Getting the graph out and the look on her face… priceless!😂

You can hear the echo of those two brain cells knocking together.

It's amazing how it just keeps getting worse.

Times up for Liz. The only answer she keeps answering is energy price but what about the worst damaging decisions. No Answer!!!

im honestly still so confused how liz truss won or why all the other MPs backed her every time I see her talking or doing anything I cringe its like they hand picked the least electable MP in parliament literally every other option in the leadership contest is more leader-like and better at politicianing

Make no mistake. She’ll crash everything because that’s what she’s been told to do by her bosses

Increase benefits and you increase wages as employers must compete. Starving people into noxious demeaning jobs working for their poverty is not the solution.

God she's like a robot on repeat

Nice to see a reporter putting on the pressure

Great interviewing Gary. What a clown she is. Tories need a few years in opposition benches to realise how out of touch they are.

Christ, if she says energy bills one more time! Broken record with nothing else to say.

You know when things have gone trajectly wrong when the Hi Viz jackets appear😂

Truss is just challenged! Never seen anything like it, especially from a supposedly seasoned politician. Rinse and repeat after 4 or 5 stock responses.

Every time she opens her mouth it's a car crash.... Imagine having a conversation with Truss. It's takes her 10 minutes to complete an incoherent sentence.

She refuses to talk about the actual issue she’s repeated the same words in every interview

She hasn't even got the backing of her own mps . If the Torys had anything about them , they would ask her quietly to resign and put in sunak but instead we will have months of this nonsense. Ego before country

She is like a broken record with the energy price how many people can even afford two and a half thousand pounds . She thinks that’s cheap

Second lowest debt in G7 is a blunt lie. Germany and Canada have way less debt.

Watching Dizzie Lizzie being interviewed gives the same vibe as watching David Brent. However, this time no one’s laughing!

We are doomed 😔

Does she realise how many millions across the UK scream in anguish when she repeats over and over again the Energy Support Package, which was already in place before the total bo lox of the tax cuts

They cost the country £65 billion and inflated mortgages and for what. Absolutely no reason. Not fit for the job And as for the volatile economy it's there fault.they created that.

I am digging this interviewer.He is quick off the mark. You been driving on that same piece of road. It’s your budget that’s been rewritten that’s history Liz.

Was this the best the Conservative party could muster, seems like they were dredging the bottom of the barrel !

I love how she thinks we should be glad about the price freeze, when every other country in Europe has gone after the people profitting to pay for it where as in the UK we as taxpayers will end up paying for it, interesting to know how many of her backers make money in energy generation, the woman should take a tip from Borris and go and hide in a fridge somewhere

Truss - "I think you're rewriting history here". Gary - "Well your budget is being rewritten at the moment" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Millionaires are very vulnerable according to Truss.

Steve Baker calling for discipline and unity!!! How does it feel, Steve?

I find answering questions as if the question was about something else dispicable. She hardly gave an answer to any of the questions, what a detestable person.

She’s gone. The Tory ship is sinking 😂

Her actions is why I have referred to her as a little political Trussy! During the party leadership race, she flirted with every popular policy she could think of and now that her mini-budget strategy has proven to be unpopular she is once again flirting with a new strategy that she thinks will be popular. Absolutely no backbone, principles or well-thought out strategy whatsoever.

Truss "It's Putin's fault", "It's Putin's fault", "It's Putin's fault".

When Truss started with "What we needed to do was act quickly, if you remember..." I knew exactly what she was going to say next as she has said the same thing as an answer in multiple interviews to answer a range of different questions. It doesn't look good if you keep trying to change the conversation to only one particular topic.

“Well, your budget is being rewritten at the moment” 💀💀

This is like watching a clown run across a mine field 🙈

Incompetent, astonishingly ignorant of the issues facing those most in need, a continuation of more of the cons dishonesty!

Liz is the greatest prime minister ever, damn, just dropped the cr4ck pipe, 😂🤣😂

Truss makes Johnson look competent!

She has laughed in so many of her interviews at very serious issues. Its horrifying.

She talks like someone fresh out of the hospital after a lobotomy

Beth Rigby and Gary Gibbon doing journalists proud. Excellent work 👏🏽

"We have the least amount of debt amongst the G7". Perhaps that is true, but what Thicky Trussy doesn't make clear is that Japan's debt is all borrowed from the population itself in the form of Government Bonds and that is why the Yen is considered one of the most secure currencies in the World. It isn't how much debt you have but the ability to be able to repay it if things go south.

Dead behind the eyes...

Truss = final nail. Joined the Labour Party, never had a party membership in my life before this

It's such a circular conversation. Trying to get an answer from her is like trying to nail jam to the wall.

I can’t look at her and say “this person is the leader of a country” without giggling. Who thought this was a good idea? 😂

She loves the chaos she has created 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

I've never seen someone so woefully out of their depth.

this women is such a hack if she just took accountability and handled it she would have a chance of getting out of this the more she avoids it the more she needs to go.

One of the most worrying things about this budget is it being referred to as "mini" - lord help us when the maxi version comes out.

I note she has her running shoes on, presumably to make a quick get away if she needs to.

You sometimes better understand how a system works by studying how it collapses.

Class interview Gary. I feel bad for her. She should just let it go... don't worry be happy.

What an impressive lineup of despicable, unsavoury, scheming, manoeuvring lying Toads on display there! (apologies to the amphibious species) From Penny Mordaunt to Steve Baker and right through Dime-Store Thatcher herself, it is difficult for me to imagine a more repulsive bunch of characters.

Has she taken a tranquiliser?

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. She looks tired and fed up. To think they picked this over Sunak

It was about her fiscal plan but everything is about her now. This is ongoing torture to this lady. A loving friend needs to save her by advising her to step down. Her heath is at stake and the country too.

Her incredible charisma will see her through.

Why would anyone invest in the UK when the market is limited to only the local population? When the UK was part of the EU we were talking about 600 million customers. Nowadays we are talking about 60 million 10% of the whole European Union. If I have to choose where I'm going to invest, I will be fast in Continental Europe.

First impressions are lasting impressions

No mention of the 'B' word and how that has massively contributed to UK economic decline since we left the EU. Lots of blame apportioned to earlier Tory govt as well as former Labour regimes.

Never mind not having the skills to be prime minister, she doesn't even have the footwear

😂😂😂😂😂😂 Welcome to UK "Pork markets Economics"

Doing something right on energy, which cost a lot of money and then claiming that huge unfunded tax-cuts aimed to make the wealthy yet wealthier is in some way funding your energy handout requires a twist of logic that is simply perverse. Truss and Kwarteng are a team whose belief in their own ability and magical thinking has been revealed as totally unfounded.

She needs to go

An excellent interview from one of the country's best journalists.

She spent part of her childhood living in Canada didn't she?🤔 I'm just wondering if she would like to return there.

Her taking u-turns on things she promised this early in her reign is never a good sign..

FFS sack, why does she not answer the question instead of dodging it about "If you remember we had energy ...." he said 20 times. Yes that bit was fine and was needed, it's the uncosted high earns tax cuts, banker's bonus gap and not confirming if you are going to reduce spending and benefits at a time when the poor need all they can get ... why can she not see this is what set the US currency, lending rates and pensions going bankrupt into high gear, It's not hard!!!!

kick it out

How on earth can Conservative party members be so out of touch with the parliamentary party and more importantly, the public, in choosing Liz Truss a leader ?

Is she pissed

Can’t worry about heating your home if you can’t afford a home to begin with 🧠

Can someone find a carer to help her answer questions?

A little off topic...I was born in 1975, same as Liz Truss, and she makes me feel old and young at the same time. It's really kind of strange.

Can somebody slap some humanity into truss please. She’s trying so hard not to be herself it’s fucking painful to experience.

Liz=WRONG! The most prosperous time for the UK for the majority was from 1950-70, with high income, inheritance and capital gains tax. Why? because there was no point in earning more than x30 average (now CEO's x 300), so reinvest in the workforce, research etc. Never perfect with strong unions, but it was the period of the closest wage gaps ever in the history of the country, which make us happier, empirically. The Nordics carried on this policy post 1970, (started in the 1930's) we foolishly chose the path of Hayek and his sociopath loons. So Liz not only are you wrong, but recent history over and over again has proven this point, whilst the Nordics with PR, open government and consensus politics ( even the right can occasionally get a look in when the centerists get complacent) just steadily grow toward greener uplands , we talk about fracking! FFS. Disaster supply side economic theory hasn't worked, period.

Am I wrong in my assessment that leaving the EU was one of the single biggest contributing factor to the economic ills the UK is having other than COVID?

I really don’t think people should be allowed to harass people while they are walking. Make an appointment.

Corrupt through and through...... get em out....!