After just weeks in the top job, Prime Minister Liz Truss is under increasing pressure to quit after admitting to a “difficult” 24 hours.

Though she insisted on Wednesday she is a “fighter, not a quitter”, a growing number of her MPs say she should reconsider her stance – after a series of humiliating U-turns already.

Earlier, Downing Street sources said Ms Truss invited Sir Graham Brady, the powerful chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbenchers, to 10 Downing Street for a hastily arranged meeting.

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More than a dozen Conservative MPs have now called for Liz Truss to resign.

Thursday saw nine Tories – including some who supported Ms Truss for the party leadership – add their voices to calls for the Prime Minister to step down.