Is Liz Truss already fighting to save her premiership? – podcast

It's been four weeks since Liz Truss became prime minister and her policies are already facing criticism from senior Conservative MPs. Rafael Behr reports on whether she'll be able to hold the party together

On Wednesday, Liz Truss addressed her party at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham. She told the party that she was ready to make the hard choices", but with some Tory MPs already publicly criticising her policies, are her days as prime minister numbered?

The speech was interrupted by two Greenpeace protesters holding up a banner saying who voted for this?", a sentiment shared by the former culture secretary Nadine Dories who tweeted earlier in the week if Liz wants a whole new mandate, she must take it to the country".