News from the NOS•today, 17:45•Modified today, 18:45
The prime minister has been targeted several times in recent weeks, most recently for pensions. Truss has long refused to promise that they would be adjusted for inflation. Today he made that promise, along with his new Treasury Secretary, veteran Jeremy Hunt.
He also received a lot of criticism for his economic plans and in particular for the tax cut he wanted to implement for the highest incomes. He later gave up on this, but the former finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, was fired for those plans. He had been in office for just over a month.
