Truss under pressure to reshuffle cabinet days after chancellor sacked

Liz Truss faces calls for cabinet reshuffle just days after he abruptly sacked his chancellor in a bid to salvage his post as prime minister.

The prime minister has faced heavy criticism for sacking ministers who backed his opponent Rishi Sunak in the Conservative leadership race.

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock launched calls for a reshuffle on Sunday, saying Ms Truss needed to bring the breadth of the Conservative Party 'into her government'.

< p>His comments came as Jeremy Hunt insisted Ms Truss had 'changed' and listened to criticism following the party's disastrous mini-budget as he urged Tory MPs not to ousted from office.

The new chancellor, who on Saturday ended her economic strategy by confirming that tax hikes and public spending cuts were likely, warned that voters would not reward the party for a new instability.

Mr. Hunt got the job after Ms Truss abruptly sacked her first choice for the job, Kwasi Kwarteng, in a bid to stem the fallout from his economic plans that have rattled markets and sent the value of the pound plummeting. lead.

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

But Mr Hunt suggested the changes go further.

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

But behind the scenes, MPs are plotting different ways to impeach her. They fear that failure to act will further damage the economic credibility of the party and see it hammered in the next legislative elections.

“She cannot lead us to the next elections, everyone knows that, it is just whether it goes short-term or long-term,” a senior MP told The Independent.

Another senior Tory figure, Robert Halfon, stopped calling on Ms Truss to resign but launched an attack on the government, calling for an apology and a 'dramatic reset' in the coming days .

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He told Sky News: "I fear that over the past few weeks the government has looked like libertarian jihadists and has treated the whole country as some sort of lab mice to run ultra, ultra free market experiments on. And that's not where the country is. There's 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 fear greater political instability, but even more economic instability. But things have to get better.

"Because if things don't change, I just think things will change." its may not be able to continue as it has been."