Liz Truss declares 'I'm a fighter not a quitter'

Liz Truss told MPs she had no intention of stepping down as UK prime minister, insisting she is "a fighter, not a quitter".

She faced MPs in the House of Commons for just her third prime ministers' questions as she battles to keep her beleaguered premiership intact. How her rebellious MPs judged her performance during the showdown could decide her future, just six weeks into her tenure in Downing Street.

With elections to the 1922 Committee completed late on Tuesday night, the powerful grouping of backbench MPs could well set new rules to trigger a confidence vote in Ms Truss’s leadership.

She is battling to retain her position and has also risked a fresh fight with Tory MPs by making a vote on a Labour motion on fracking a test of confidence in her administration.

On Monday, new chancellor Jeremy Hunt reversed almost all of the tax cuts announced by his predecessor, Kwasi Kwarteng, in September as he sought to calm financial markets following weeks of turbulence.

Ms Truss began today's session by repeating her message that she accepted she had made mistakes on the economy and again apologised.

She tried to get the upper hand by challenging opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer for refusing to condemn striking railway workers.

She was ridiculed by Mr Starmer, who read out a list of her policies which had already been abandoned. He asked if "out by Christmas" was the title or publication date for a book being written about her time in office.

Mr Starmer argued the government had “crashed the economy” and read out a list of dropped economic policies, with Labour MPs shouting “gone” after each one.

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