Hunt says Truss has 'changed' as he urges Tory MPs not to abandon him

Jeremy Hunt insisted that Liz Truss had 'changed' and listened to criticism of his party's disastrous mini-budget as he urged Tory MPs not to give up on their third prime minister in four years.

Hours after axing her economic strategy in a bid to salvage her post as prime minister, the new chancellor warned that voters would not thank the party for further instability.

But he was forced to insist she was still in charge after his allies compared him to the CEO of the government. Jeremy Hunt insisted on Sunday that Liz Truss was still leading the government charge, as he signaled plans to effectively abandon the economic vision that brought her to power.

He told the BBC on Sunday with the Laura Kuenssberg show that people could still trust him, despite the turmoil of the past few days.

Mr. Hunt got the job after the shock sacking of Kwasi Kwarteng's Ms Truss as chancellor on Friday in a bid to stem the fallout from his disastrous mini-budget.

She also announced a major reversal of her flagship corporate tax cut plan.

But Mr Hunt suggested the changes went beyond politics and personnel.

He told the BBC: "She listened, she changed. She did the hardest thing in politics, which is to change course.

But the MPs are actively trying to remove the Prime Minister from office in a bid to restore the economic credibility of the party and protect it from possible annihilation in parts of the country in the upcoming general elections.

A MP senior said: 'She can't drive us to the next election, everyone knows that, it's just if she goes short term or long term.

Tory MP Robert Halfon refrained from calling on him to step down, but launched a dramatic attack on the government calling for an apology and a 'dramatic reset' in the coming days.

He told Sky News, Mr Halfon said: 'I fear that over the past few weeks the government has looked like libertarian jihadists and treated everyone e country as a kind of laboratory mouse on which to conduct ultra, ultra free market experiments. And that's not where the country is. There has been one horror story after another.

When asked if Ms Truss should lead her party in the next election, he replied: "At the moment I am not calling on the Prime Minister to leave. I worry about more political instability, but even more economic instability. But things have to improve.

"Because if things don't change, I just think maybe things might not be able to continue the way they have. "

The Prime Minister is also facing calls for a reshuffle, just days after he sacked his Chancellor in a bid to save his post as Prime Minister.

Ms Truss said been criticized for eliminating ministers who backed his opponent, Rishi Sunak, in the Tory leadership race.

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Ms Truss needed to bring the breadth of the Conservative Party 'into her government'.