Liz Truss watched in silence as new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt told MPs he had shredded her tax-cutting economic policy, writes the Metro. 

“The axeman cometh” declares the Metro’s headline. The paper described the PM as staring straight ahead and watching in silence. 

The front page takes note of claims the PM was ‘missing’ from action as she sent Penny Mordaunt in her place to face the opposition leader Keir Starmer at the Commons. There were taunts the PM was ‘hiding under her desk’ – she finally turned up for the chancellor’s address.