On Monday night local time, British Prime Minister Tras apologized to the whole country for the first time. She apologized for the "wrongs" in her previous policy. These mistakes caused investors' confidence to evaporate, her poll support rate dropped sharply, and almost all of them were shattered in the end, but She also said that she would not resign and even fought for the next election. She also praised herself for her apology: I do think it is a sign of an honest politician.
After a day of dramatic events at Westminster , Leeds Trass said she wanted to "take responsibility and apologize" for the chaos caused by last month's mini budget. It is said that at a meeting last night, she also "apologized" to moderate Conservative MPs of the One Nation. That is to say, Tras apologized twice. Meanwhile, her new Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunter announced that the basis of her leadership campaign, the unfunded tax cuts worth £32 billion will be revoked. He also cut the government's energy bill support program significantly from two years to six months to appease the market. In an interview with BBC, Tras admitted that yesterday's 180-degree turn meant that economic growth "will take longer."
She also publicly stated how "painful" it was to fire former Chancellor and close friend Kwasi Kwarteng. When asked "who should be responsible for this chaos," Trass replied, "First of all, I do want to take responsibility and apologize for the mistakes I have made. I want to take action to help people solve the energy bills problem, solve the high tax problem, but we're going too far, too fast, I admit that."
But she later praised herself, "I appointed a new Chancellor of the Exchequer and formulated a new strategy to restore economic stability, and now my focus is on serving the public."
When asked if her vision for a low-tax, high-growth economy had "dead", she said yesterday's 180-degree turn was to ensure "economic stability." She added compliments herself, "I'm still committed to this vision, but we have to achieve it differently. I admit we did act too quickly, which is why I adjusted our approach, I do think it's a sign of an honest politician who would say, 'Yes, I made a mistake'. You see, I've corrected this mistake."
When asked if she acknowledged that the economic turmoil caused rising interest rates and made it harder for people to pay their bills, she said, "Well, first of all I said sorry. We went too far and too fast". She also defended herself, saying, “As a country, we are in a difficult situation, and the whole world is facing this difficult situation, so we have to adjust our policies”.
She also denied that the chaos in recent weeks meant she should resign as prime minister and vowed to lead the Conservative Party to the next election. She said, "I stay here because I was chosen to serve this country, which is what I am determined to do."
Despite reports that backbenchers were pushing to overthrow Tras this week, she made the remarks. Several Tory members, including Chrispin Blunt, Andrew Brigan and Jamie Wallis, have asked her to resign, and she has only been the British Prime Minister for six weeks.
Speaking of these reports, Tras said, "I am not concerned with the debate within the Conservatives. It is important that I was selected to serve the country and we are facing very difficult times. We can't spend our time talking about the Conservatives, not what we need to do, and that's what I'm going to say to my colleagues."
In the party leader's election this summer, Tras promised to turn Britain into a low-tax, high-growth economy, and "making the cake bigger" will promote Britain's prosperity., but she admitted that yesterday's 180-degree turn, including pushing for corporate tax hikes and a cancellation of the proposal to lower the basic income tax rate by 1 pence , would delay the realization of that vision.
She also added, "I hope our country can have higher growth and people can get more opportunities from all over the country. I also honestly say that we are facing a very difficult economic situation. So we have to change the way we achieve this, which will take longer".
