Liz Truss suffered another bruising session at Prime Minister's Questions today as she was pummelled from all angles over the chaos surrounding her government.
Last week Ms Truss sacked her close friend and ally - Kwasi Kwarteng - as Chancellor and his replacement, Jeremy Hunt, has already reversed the vast majority of the plans she put in place after becoming Prime Minister.
There are now multiple reports that a large number of letters have been sent from furious Tory MPs to their backbench leader Sir Graham Brady calling for the beleaguered PM to quit. Most believe she only has a limited time left.
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Despite this, Ms Truss tried to fight back at today's PMQs as she was attacked from all sides. Her words felt flat and her position felt altogether even weaker by the end of it.
At one point, the Prime Minister appeared to channel a former Labour figure as she claimed she is "a fighter and not a quitter." These were the very same words uttered by ex-Labour frontbencher Peter Mandelson as he was elected to his seat in Hartlepool despite being caught up in scandal.
But as many have pointed out, Mandelson's quote was maybe not the best example to choose for a host of reasons. One of these being that he was of course a senior figure in the Labour Party. But the main one is that Mr Mandelson actually did quit - twice.
Labour MP Chris Bryant pointed this out on twitter, he said: "“I’m a fighter, not a quitter’. Truss seems to have forgotten Mandelson did quit. Twice."
Financial Times Journalist Jim Pickard was one to pick up on this, stating: "A line taken straight from Peter Mandelson, who quit twice as a Labour minister." His colleague Sebastian Payne added: "Not sure channelling Peter Mandelson, who was forced to quit as a cabinet minister twice, was a wise idea for Liz Truss."
Sky News reader Niall Paterson questioned the rhetoric, adding: "So someone in number ten thought quoting *Peter Mandelson* was today’s winning strategy."
The line did not appear to go down to well with Conservative MPs either. Talk TV political editor Kate McCann reports seeing one backbencher turn to another and say "useless" with the other nodding in agreement.
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