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Truss has been warned that breaking the triple lock promise would be “devastating for the millions who rely on the state pension”.

It comes after the newly-elected chancellor Jeremy Hunt dramatically U-turned on Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-Budget.

“I will stay in the job to deliver for the national interest", the prime minister told the BBC, struggling to keep a straight face.

‘The great office of Prime Minister was yesterday reduced to an unedifying game of ghost-hunting,’ The Sun writes in an editorial.

The prime minister admitted things have not been ‘perfect’.

The Tory MP described the PM’s move as a ‘gut punch’ that cast him into a bout of depression.

"The policies that were announced in the original mini-Budget were the policies she fought and won the Conservative leadership election on."

Several major measures outlined by Kwasi Kwarteng just a few weeks ago have been replaced by his successor.

Liz Smith, the Scottish Conservative finance spokeswoman, said the Prime Minister is in ‘an extremely difficult position’.