‘Liz Truss is a former Prime Minister, she just doesn’t know it yet’: Britons continue mercilessly mocking embattled PM with floods of memes on social media

• Twitter users are mocking u-turn prone Liz Truss amid ongoing economic crisis
• They think her days in office are numbered, calling her a ‘former Prime Minister’
• Others mocked her for ‘hiding’ from the public while the economy is tanking 
• The memes come as she vowed to lead Tories ‘into the next general election’

Social media users are mercilessly mocking Liz Truss amid speculation her days as Prime Minister are numbered.

Twitter was awash with memes Tuesday morning after Ms Truss’s economic policies were brutally torched by her new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt overnight.

Britons mocked the Prime Minister for ‘hiding’ from the public while the UK economy continues to tank. 

The comments stemmed from a remark by Labour MP Stella Creasy accusing Ms Truss of ‘cowering under her desk’ when she failed to show up for a  meeting at the House of Commons.

Meanwhile, Ms Truss has been warned by a senior minister that she cannot afford to make any more mistakes as she battles to stay in No 10. 

The Prime Minister apologised to the nation for her arguably catastrophic mini-budget on Monday, but social media users are still calling for her removal.

Many are taking bets as too how long u-turn prone Ms Truss will stay in power, comparing her to Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker whose portrayal of the Doctor is low ranking amongst fans.

Social media users are mercilessly mocking Liz Truss amid speculation her days as Prime Minister are numbered 

In a BBC interview on Monday night, Ms Truss declared she intends to lead the Conservative Party into the next general election.

She said she is ‘sticking around’ because she was ‘elected to deliver for this country’, adding: ‘I will lead the Conservatives into the next general election.

‘I will stay in the job to deliver for the national interest.’

 However, Twitter users have implied her days as Prime Minister are numbered.

‘Can Liz Truss outlast this dying Time Lord?’ one questioned, sharing a side-by-side photo of the Prime Minister and Ms Whittaker.

Other’s asked ‘who would go first?,’ again comparing Ms Truss and the actress. 

Former MP General Nick Boles took the likelihood of her ousting further and called on Sir Graham Brady to select her successor using a Bingo wheel.

Another user tweeted: ‘Liz Truss is a former Prime Minister, she just doesn’t know it yet.’ 

Ms Truss also admitted to admitted to and apologised for the ‘mistakes’ over her mini-budget on Monday night.

She said she has ‘adjusted what we’re doing’ after the Government’s fiscal policies spooked the markets, putting in place a new Chancellor with a fresh strategy to ‘restore economic stability’.

‘I do think it is the mark of an honest politician who does say, yes, I’ve made a mistake,’ she said.

She said she wanted to ‘accept responsibility and say sorry for the mistakes that have been made’.

‘I wanted to act… to help people with their energy bills, to deal with the issue of high taxes, but we went too far and too fast. I’ve acknowledged that,’ she said.

Regardless, her remarks were met with negativity by social media users implying she only discussed the economy after the markets closed because ‘they can’t tank’ if they are are closed.

Many are taking bets as too how long u-turn prone Ms Truss will stay in power, comparing her to Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker whose portrayal of the Doctor is low ranking amongst fans

However, the most popular meme trend is seemingly mocking the Tory leader for hiding from the public.

One user tweeted an image of a red coach bus with ‘The Prime Minister is not under a desk’ plastered across it.

Former footballer Gary Lineker, sharing a beautiful photo of a wooded landscape, added: ‘What a beautiful autumnal day. Much too nice to be stuck under a desk.’

One questioned ‘Why is Liz Truss under a desk?’ and another said: ‘Hope you don’t find my desk too big for you.’

The desk remarks flooded in after House of the Commons leader Penny Mordaunt defended Ms Truss on Monday when asked why the Prime Minister did not attend the gathering.

Labour MP Creasy asked: ‘All we know right now is, unless she tells us otherwise, the prime minister is cowering under her desk and asking for it all to go away.

‘Isn’t it about time she did and let somebody else who can make decisions in the British national interest get in charge instead?’ 

‘The Prime Minister is not under a desk,’ Ms Mordaunt responded. ‘I can assure the house that, with regret, she is not here for a very good reason.’ 

Britons mocked the Prime Minister for ‘hiding’ from the public. The comments stemmed from a remark by Labour MP Stella Creasy accusing Ms Truss of ‘cowering under her desk’ when she failed to show up for a meeting at the House of Commons

Although Ms Truss has apologised for the mistakes she made over the ill-fated mini-budget and declared she intends to continuing leading the nation, it ultimately may not be her choice if MPs move against her.

Armed forces minister James Heappey said: ‘She’s very much our Prime Minister and, for what it’s worth, I think she’s doing a good job.’

But he told Sky News that ‘given how skittish our politics are’ at the moment ‘I don’t think there’s the opportunity to make any more mistakes’.

He said Ms Truss had ‘fronted up to her mistake very quickly’ but ‘there are people in the parliamentary party who don’t want that to be the end of it’.

However he insisted many Tories recognise that ‘this is a moment when this country needs its Government to knuckle down and get back on with the day job’.

One of the factors keeping Ms Truss in office despite being forced to abandon the economic platform that got her elected as Tory leader is the lack of an obvious candidate to replace her.

Tory MPs are reluctant to have another leadership contest among the Conservative membership, something that could take months and further damage the party’s reputation.

But avoiding a contest would mean identifying a consensus figure who would be acceptable to the majority of MPs.

Mr Heappey suggested the alternative to ‘rowing in behind the Prime Minister and making a success of her Government is to throw ourselves into another period of great rancour’ because the idea of a unity candidate is ‘for the birds’.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘The idea that there is somebody who could emerge and behind whom everybody in the parliamentary party and our membership unites, and the country forgets about everything that has happened for the last 15 months or so and we’re just allowed to get on with it, I just don’t think that is the case.’

On Times Radio he admitted that no-one around the Cabinet table thought the mini-budget, which unleashed market turmoil due to its £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts, was a bad idea.

‘It’d be completely disingenuous to claim that, on that morning, when the Cabinet was presented with the mini-budget, that there was anybody sat around the table who said that it was a bad idea,’ he said.

‘Each and every one of the measures within it were coherent with a desire to drive growth.’

Under current party rules Ms Truss is protected from a leadership challenge for 12 months, but that could change if enough Tory MPs demand it.

Five Tory MPs have openly called for her to go, but behind the scenes many more have doubts about her ability to turn the situation around with Labour enjoying substantial opinion poll leads.

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the UK is a ‘global laughing stock’ and the nation has ‘lost its way’ under Ms Truss.

She told BBC Breakfast: ‘It is not enough just to get through – we should be thriving and leading the world as a country.’

On Monday, Mr Hunt reversed almost all of the tax cuts his predecessor, Kwasi Kwarteng, announced in September’s mini-budget in an attempt to reassure the markets that the Government will take a responsible approach to the public finances.

He put MPs on notice that there will be decisions of ‘eye-watering difficulty’ to come on tax and spending.

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