Four Tory MPs have now openly called for Liz Truss to resign
Tory MPs Crispin Blunt, Andrew Bridgen, Jamie Wallis and Angela Richardson have all called on Liz Truss to resign.
Mr Blunt, the first to call on her to go, claimed the under-fire PM cannot survive turmoil in Westminster, which saw Jeremy Hunt replace Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor on Friday. He told Channel 4 News: "I think the game is up and it's now a question as to how the succession is managed. "If there is such a weight of opinion in the parliamentary party that we have to have a change, then it will be effected.Mr Wallis said he has "watched as the Government has undermined Britain’s economic credibility & fractured our Party irreparably"."I have written to the Prime Minister to ask her to stand down as she no longer holds the confidence of this country."
Ms Richardson was the most recent to call for Ms Truss' resignation, saying her position is "no longer tenable" in the wake of
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