With boos and a barrage of criticism, it opened British Prime Minister Liz Truss, The questioning session of her government in Parliament, today, Wednesday.
This time, however, the conservative politics also strongly resisted criticism and ridicule, especially from the leader of the opposition Labor Party, Keir Starmer.
In contrast to her famous speech last week in which she announced her retreat from her economic plan, after her Finance Minister Kwasi Quarting stepped down, and apologized to the British, as she looked bleak and defeated, this time she appeared “determined” and solid.
Why are you still here?
When confronted by Starmer sarcastically, “Why are you still here after her finance minister resigned?” she replied defiantly, “I’m staying, not withdrawing.” She stressed, “It acted in the interest of the country.”
She also insisted that she would not resign in a stormy atmosphere in the first impeachment hearing since the rollback of her tax plan.
In addition, she repeated her apology, but without showing signs of defeat this time, as she said: “I was very clear, and I apologized, but now the changes announced by the government should be implemented.”
But the critics’ swords did not spare her, but rather touched her from all sides, as many MPs questioned her ability and plan.
Some of them also asked, “Why are you here if” your program is good, in reference to government accountability sessions, while another asked, “Do we refrain from washing our face with warm water in the winter?”
However, every time she was answering and addressing the assertion of her survival.
It appears that Terrace “ran out of feathers” in the first parliamentary questioning session, since the new Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt canceled a package of tax cuts that her government announced last month.
It is noteworthy that the unfunded tax cuts package announced on September 23 had sparked turmoil in financial markets, and led to a decline in the exchange rate of the pound sterling, as well as increased the cost of government borrowing in the United Kingdom, which prompted the Bank of England to intervene to prevent the crisis from reaching the economy aggregate and jeopardizing pensions.