Liz Truss – live: James Cleverly insists replacing PM is a “disastrously bad idea”

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Liz Truss heckled by MPs for saying she was 'really unclear'

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly Tory MPs have warned that getting rid of Liz Truss as Prime Minister would be a 'terribly bad idea'.

Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cleverly said the government needed to do things that would "bring certainty to the markets".

“I think changing direction would be a very bad idea politically and also economically. We are absolutely going to stay focused on growing the economy,” he said.

< p>Mr Cleverly had previously not ruled out a change to the government's tax plans, when asked about corporation tax.

Asked if the government would reverse its announcement last month to keep corporation tax at 19% and not raise it as planned, he told Sky News Kwasi Kwarteng would soon present the full tax plan and that 'it was right to support businesses so they can stay competitive.

'The Chancellor will come to the dispatch box,' he said. 'I think he's all absolutely right that we've made it clear we want to invest in business."

1665650606The Covid furlough scheme "has lost billions of pounds to it cause of error and fraud"

Billions of pounds awarded under Covid job support schemes have been lost to fraud and error, a public spending watchdog has warned.< /p>

The National Audit Office has criticized the government for not doing more to prevent errors and fraudulent claims when rolling out the furlough scheme and self-employed income support scheme, warning that billions of pounds could remain unrecovered.

In total, according to the National Audit Office's latest program report, £4.5 billion - or almost 4.6% of the total cost of the government's £96.9billion Covid-19 emergency aid package - was claimed in error or fraud.

But even this estimate...