Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss on Wednesday will end her party’s turbulent annual conference with an unabashed defense of “disruption” to counter economic “drift and lag”.

Just a month since she succeeded Boris Johnson, Truss has alienated voters, financial markets and many in the Conservative Party with a crash program of debt-fueled tax cuts to revive growth.

Former Minister Grant Shapps, who supported Truss’s leadership rival Rishi Sunak, said she could face a no-confidence vote from MPs if her keynote speech at the Tory conference in Birmingham doesn’t start to revive the party’s dismal standing in opinion polls.

“In the end, I don’t think MPs and Conservatives will be sitting on their hands if they see the polls going like this,” he told Times Radio.

“A way would be found to make that change.”

But in her speech, which is expected from 1005 GMT, Truss will argue that the status quo is not an option, according to a preview released by the party.

“The scale of the challenge is immense,” she is said to say, emphasizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the economic crisis following the Covid-19 pandemic.

“That’s why we have to do things differently in the UK. Whenever there is change, there is disruption. Not everyone will be for it.

“But everyone will benefit from the outcome — a growing economy and a brighter future,” she will say, promising a “clear plan” to end the “high-tax, low-growth cycle.”

Truss will defy critics, including Johnson allies, who accused her in Birmingham of not having a national mandate for her unpopular reforms after she won the Tory leadership with the vote of 81,326 party members.

“We have huge talent across the country. We don’t make enough of it. To do that, we need to get Britain moving,” Truss is expected to say.

“We can no longer have discrepancies and delays at this crucial time.”

Whether the speech will have the impact 10 Downing Street wants remains to be seen.

Truss is a wooden talker, and her media interviews leading up to Wednesday have focused relentlessly on the about-face she’s been forced to orchestrate, a hallmark element of her reform overhaul.

Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng reversed their plan to cut income taxes on the wealthiest as ordinary Britons grapple with a painful cost of living crisis.

Cabinet splits erupted in Birmingham, suggesting the couple will next be cutting social benefits despite the impact of the crisis on the poor.

Truss denied she had lost control of her cabinet after showing unity with the besieged Kwarteng during a visit to a Birmingham construction site on Tuesday.

“We work with our MPs, it’s a team, this Conservative team, that proposes our policy to the country and delivers it to the country,” she told ITV.

Interior Secretary Suella Braverman, on the other hand, showed little team spirit, accusing party critics of staging a “coup” against Truss.

Dissident ringleader Michael Gove was one of Braverman’s targets. But he maintained his ongoing criticism of Truss, stressing that all Conservative MPs were elected to Johnson’s 2019 election manifesto.

“We have to stay true to what Boris wanted,” Gove said, stressing that Truss has yet to face British voters himself.

But when asked by reporters if Truss would survive beyond the end of the year, the former minister said, “Yes.”

Opinion polls have shown that the main opposition party, Labor, has surpassed the 50 percent mark while the Tories are collapsing under Truss, straining nerves in Birmingham over the four days of the conference.

“Surveys move up and down,” said Kwarteng on the sidelines of the conference on Tuesday, emphasizing that the two years until the next election were “an eternity in politics”.

“I never predict a win but I think we can be very competitive and have a compelling story to tell.”

Judith Donovan, a 71-year-old party member from Yorkshire in northern England, urged the rookie prime minister to “stick to her guns”.

“We cannot keep killing prime ministers. When she’s done, we’re all done,” she told AFP.