The Tories are treating this country with contempt.
Once again a Conservative Prime Minister has been humiliatingly forced out of office and once again the public will be denied a say on her replacement.
The right to govern this great nation has become the play thing of a decrepit and discredited party.
Yet again the public will be forced to watch one, their noses pressed against the glass, as a rag-tag bunch of Tory MPs and thousands of out-of-touch party members select a new leader.
What a shameful track record they have.
It is thanks to them we were landed with the feeble Theresa May.
They were responsible for putting the immoral and self-centred Boris Johnson in power.
And they decided, against all the evidence to the contrary, that Liz Truss was a suitable candidate for Prime Minister.
That experiment finally came to its inevitable end yesterday when she agreed to depart the stage after just 44 days in office.
Her resignation speech only underlined why she should never been near the door of No 10 in the first place. There was no recognition of the appalling damage her disastrous mini-Budget had caused and no apology for the carnage she had unleashed on her party and the country.
There will now be another vanity parade as a string of B-list of leadership hopefuls jostle for the right to replace her.
At a time when the country is crying out for stability, the Conservatives will yet again be consumed by a bitter battle for succession.
The self-entitlement of this party is staggering. Their self-indulgence is insulting.
They are not interested in what is best for this country, only how they can stay in power for as long as possible.
While they are embroiled in yet another internal melodrama, there are families which are unable to afford to heat their homes, foodbanks which have run out of supplies, patients waiting months for an operation and firms worried they will go under.
The chaos is not just embarrassing - having five Prime Ministers in six years has made us an international laughing stock - it is failing the people the government is supposed to serve.
The next leader will have no mandate, no real authority and no right to govern.
Such is the dearth of talent on the Tory benches that none of leading contenders fill you with confidence.
No serious party would consider the return of Boris Johnson, a man who partied while relatives buried their loved ones and who remains the subject of a Parliamentary inquiry into whether he lied to MPs.
To serve this country as Prime Minister was once a great honour.
Those who step through the famous black door of Downing Street follow in the esteemed footsteps of William Gladstone, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee.
This Tory Government has turned the centre of power into a bargain basement B&B for a succession of failed leaders.
The electorate has been excluded as dud after dud has been foisted on this country on the whim of a few thousand Conservative members.
This abuse against democracy has to stop.
The British public should decide who runs the country. The British public deserve better, they deserve a general election.
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On her 44 days in office, Truss today admitted she had failed in her attempt to deliver on the devastating economic mandate put forward by her government.
After weeks of turmoil at the top, Truss went on to say: " I have therefore spoken to His Majesty the King to notify him that I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party.
"This morning I met the chairman of the 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady.
"We've agreed that there will be a leadership election to be completed within the next week."
However, the announcement was met with even greater calls for a general election, with Labour leader Keir Starner saying: “The Conservative Party has shown it no longer has a mandate to govern.
“After 12 years of Tory failure, the British people deserve so much better than this revolving door of chaos. In the last few years, the Tories have set record-high taxation, trashed our institutions and created a cost-of-living crisis. Now, they have crashed the economy so badly that people are facing £500 a month extra on their mortgages. The damage they have done will take years to fix.
“The British public deserve a proper say on the country's future. They must have the chance to compare the Tories’ chaos with Labour’s plans to sort out their mess, grow the economy for working people and rebuild the country for a fairer, greener future.
"We must have a chance at a fresh start. We need a general election - now.”
