Responding to the resignation of the Prime Minister Liz Truss, Portsmouth South’s Stephen Morgan MP said:
“The Conservative Party has shown it no longer has a mandate to govern.
“After 12 years of Tory failure, Portsmouth and the country 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 Tories cannot respond to their latest shambles by yet again simply clicking their fingers and shuffling the people at the top without the consent of the British people. They do not have a mandate to put the country through yet another experiment.
“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 the fairer, greener future Portsmouth deserves. We must have a chance at a fresh start. We need a general election – now.”
