Floundering Liz Truss said 'we need help now' as she admits measures could take months

Wadder Liz Truss was told 'we need help now' today by a father forced to find a second job to pay his bills - as she admitted his tax cuts could take months to come to fruition.

Faced with terrifying rises in the energy price cap, which forecasters predict could exceed £4,200 in January, Ms Truss faces desperate calls for action if she becomes Prime Minister.< /p>

She claimed she would act on 'day one', but was forced to admit that her proposed tax cuts may not take effect until spring next year.

Confronted with voter Neil Darwish during the People's Forum With Liz Truss broadcast by GB News, the frontrunner continued to argue that reversing the National Insurance hike and suspending the tax on green energy would alleviate the pain of families.

She said she would begin the process "on day one" of her premiership, but was forced to admit it could still take until spring to put her measures into effect.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs said she would present an emergency budget

“I will act from day one, but it will happen well before April, when the tax year traditionally begins,” the troubled Conservative candidate said, adding, “But I will make sure that the Chancellor do so as soon as he can."

Resuming her line on dealing with the crisis, Ms Truss said: "My fundamental approach is that we have to keep taxes low. What we shouldn't do is take money from the taxpayers and return it to them in benefits."

But Mr. Darwish, a manager in the social housing sector, told him, "I need the money now, we need the money now, we can't wait."

The frontrunner told presenter Alistair Stewart, "There would be an emergency budget under my budget that would immediately look at these issues."

Ms Truss repeatedly failed to answer questions about whether a government with her at the helm would put in place a bailout to help struggling families, saying instead: 'We haven't yet Prime Minister again, it's coming in September, so I can't announce what I'm going to do at this stage."