Jeremy Hunt held crisis talks with Liz Truss at the PM's residence at Chequers this evening amid claims he is 'running the country'
He spent much of Sunday dismissing any suggestion that he is now leading the government, saying "the prime minister is in charge," while Liz Truss seeks to stay in power despite an increasingly shaky-looking premiership.
Amid warnings of "difficult decisions" to come over the next two weeks, Mr Hunt and Ms Truss will meet in her Chequers residence on Sunday as tax rises and spending cuts loom on the horizon. Earlier, he told broadcasters: "Spending will not rise by as much as people would like and all Government departments are going to have to find more efficiencies than they were planning to."
Speaking from Washington, he said the pair had a "meeting of minds" on the issue of "fiscal sustainability" as he noted the fact the Office of Budget Responsibility is now "very much back in the picture". Questions still hang over the Government about whether it would be able to win enough support from a divided party for a series of painful decisions on tax and spending that have already prompted memories of the austerity era under David Cameron and George Osborne.
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