UK’s Truss vows to listen as she reels from policy U-turns

By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Liz Truss should be celebrating her first month as Britain’s prime minister. Instead, she’s fighting for her job. Truss has spent her first Conservative Party conference as leader scrambling to reassure financial markets spooked by her government’s see-sawing economic pledges. She’s also seeking to restore her authority with a party that fears its chance of reelection is crumbling. Truss insisted Tuesday that she is leading “a listening government” that learns from its mistakes. Truss told the BBC that she is determined to “reflect on how we could have done things better.” Truss’ four weeks in office have seen the pound plunge to record lows against the dollar and the opposition Labour Party surge to record highs in opinion polls.