Liz Truss will step down as Prime Minister this afternoon or in the next two weeks, Andrew Marr has said.
Speaking to LBC's Shelagh Fogarty on Friday afternoon, Andrew said: "I think if she doesn’t go today they’ll get her out next week or the week after."
Ms Truss sacked chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday afternoon in the run up to an announcement where she will reportedly reverse on a flagship corporate tax cut policy. The economic and market turmoil caused by the government's recent mini-Budget caused the pound to crash, meaning the Bank of England had to step in to raise interest rates - causing headaches for mortgage holders and a ripple effect in the wider economy.Andrew said: "We meet across this fine studio table on rare occasions. We last talked on the death of the Queen - we're now talking on the occasion of the death of the government.
He added: "The choice is to go today with dignity in her own words, on her own terms - or be pulled out in a much more humiliating fashion later."Andrew continued: "Jeremy Hunt is very much on the opposite wing of the Conservative Party to her.
Andrew said there were three options ahead for the Conservative party: either Ms Truss carries on as she was, which would lead to paralysis, or the Tories force an "emergency Cabinet" onto her, changing direction radically, or they call a general election, which he said was unlikely because Labour would probably win convincingly.
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