The British people deserve “so much better” than this “revolving door of chaos,” UK Labour leader Keir Starmer said on Thursday, calling for a general election after UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned.
“Each one of these crises was made in Downing Street but paid for by the British public. Each one has left our country weaker and worse off,” the opposition leader said in a statement posted on Twitter.
“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,” he added. “They do not have a mandate to put the country through yet another experiment; Britain is not their personal fiefdom to run how they wish.”
Starmer said the British public deserves a proper say in the country’s future, adding that Labour plans to “sort out their [Conservative party’s] mess.”
“We must have a chance at a fresh start. We need a general election – now,” he concluded in the statement.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation Thursday after six turbulent weeks in office, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.
Truss said a new prime minister will be selected by her Conservative Party lawmakers in the coming week — but the process by which the decision will be made remains unclear at this stage. The party is bitterly divided by warring centrist and right-wing factions, and there is no clear consensus candidate to take over.
Source: CNN/ Washington post
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