Market Turmoil, Disastrous Polls & Doomsday Scenarios Overshadow UK Conservative Party Conference

As the UK Conservative Party Conference kicks off in Birmingham, Prime Minister Liz Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng are expected to explain the risks their tax-slashing mini-budget entails to their own party’s grassroots, the jittery financial markets and the public, which has swung sharply behind Labour in seven polls.