MADRID, 17 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Three Conservative MPs have publicly called this Sunday for UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to leave the British government, amid rumors that pressure for her to resign will take effect this week.
Parliamentarians Crispin Blunt, Andrew Bridgen and Jamie Wallis have publicly called for the prime minister’s resignation on Sunday night.
However, Liz Truss – who has been in government for only six weeks – will meet this week with moderate Conservative MPs in an attempt to win over a large part of the party.
Crispin Blunt MP explained that “the majority of parliamentarians understand that the authority of Prime Minister Truss is now fatally damaged”.
“He has to go, as he cannot sustain — or earn — the trust of his teammates, much less the public or the relentless media,” Blunt wrote on his website.
“The main emotional reactions to its public presentation are now a mixture of anger, contempt and pity. It is a blinding glimpse of the obvious that this cannot and should not continue”, he added, before assessing the proposal as “brave and bold”. Truss’s policy, which, however, has “collided with today’s harsh economic realities”.
Thus, he has indicated that his party “has to respond collectively to this moment of supreme crisis.” Blunt has considered that the appointment of Jeremy Hunt as finance minister is a “necessary but insufficient” measure in terms of the change in the cabinet leadership.
Along the same lines, Andrew Bridgen has shown himself, who in an interview with ‘The Daily Telegraph’ has declared that this cannot continue like this: “Our country, the people and the party deserve better”.
Jamie Wallis was the third Conservative MP to call for Truss to resign, because he had “undermined the economic credibility” of the country, while also “irreparably fractured” the party.
Wallis has written a letter directly to the prime minister indicating that “enough is enough” because “he does not have the support of the country”, as published on his Twitter account.