Michael Gove has said it is a matter of when not if Liz Truss is removed as prime minister as he warned Britons to expect “a hell of a lot of pain in the next two months”.⁠ ⁠ The former cabinet minister, who backed Rishi Sunak in the summer and was an early opponent of Truss’s mini-budget, said that her programme had now been “shredded”.⁠ ⁠ At a private event today Gove said that “we are going through hell” and “after hell comes purgatory and paradise”. He added: “Purgatory is going to be a tough economic medicine applied in this country and elsewhere. For how long I don’t know. But until and unless the interest rate increases and other measures required in order to kill and reduce inflation are in place, then we won’t get out of this mess.”⁠ ⁠ Asked whether it was “no longer a question of whether Liz Truss goes, but when she goes,” Gove agreed that was “absolutely right”. He added: “The question for any leader is what happens when the programme or the platform on which you secured the leadership has been shredded.”⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in our bio to read the full story.⁠