The Prime Minister was accused of ‘running scared’ after failing to show up for Keir Starmer’s urgent question on her troubled financial plans.
In her place, she sent Ms Mordaunt, who told MPs: ‘With apologies to the Leader of the Opposition and the House, the PM is detained on urgent business… and I’m afraid you’ll have to make do with me.’ It comes after the prime minister refused to face MPs after sacking Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday.
She gave a brief press conference, but her new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been more vocal, with an address to the nation this morning scrapping most of her previous policy proposals.This is a breaking news story, more to follow soon…Got a story? Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at
stuck in a fridge somewhere
Updating her CV? Shortest serving PM is quite an achievement!
Should have pulled the Trudeau covid card.
That urgent business is a meeting called by NATO on whether to launch a full scale invasion of Russia!! Hey lefties! Corbyn traitors! you friends in Russia are going to be taken care of! 👍