Tax U-turns were painful – PM 

Prime Minister Liz Truss has told her tight-wing Tory MPs that her tax U-turns were “painful”. 

The PM told Eurospectic backbenchers she was still committed to boosting growth through economic reforms, No 10 sources said. 

The PM has been meeting with Tory MPs to try and shore up support for her faltering premiership – the latest polls put at -70 that’s worse than both Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn at peaks of unpopularity. 

Her popularity has tanked with her own MPs after her authority was undermined following the junking of the mini-Budget – where she abandoned flagship tax cuts. 

Today marks her first Prime Minister’s Questions since the many U-turns. 

It’s only her third PMQs as prime minister and it’s expected to be lively – her performance will be heavily scrutinised following her awful press conference held last week. 

Truss has faced further scrutiny for dodging MPs and seemingly avoiding answering questions or explaining her U-turns.