According to the newspaper, the meeting is expected to take place on Monday 17 October. Some Conservatives will demand the immediate resignation of the head of government, while others plan to “publicly call Truss out of office following the failure of his tax cut program.”
The Guardian notes that this decision was made against the backdrop of a Truss initiative to sack Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng due to a sweeping tax reform that drove the pound lower. At the same time, support for the premier is already weakening among ministers.
“Now she is in the waiting room and she knows it. Now it is a matter of time whether she will take part in the trial and go to some extent on her terms, or will try to resist and be forced out,” said one of the anonymous exes. ministers in a comment on the publication. .
The daily also points out that between 15 and 20 former ministers and other senior members of parliament were invited to a meeting on Truss’s resignation. The main initiators of the event are the supporters of Rishi Sunak, Truss’s rival in the fight for the post of prime minister.
According to an anonymous member of parliament, among the British authorities “there are those who believe that the premier will survive if he holds out until the end of next week” when the markets begin to open.
