North East and Teesside politicians comment on Prime Minister's resignation
Liz Truss has stepped down as Prime Minister
Last updated 20th Oct 2022
Liz Truss has resigned as the Prime Minister of the UK, after less than 50 days in the position.
It makes her the shortest Prime Minister in British history.
Leader of the Liberal Democrats on Sunderland City Council Niall Hodson said:
“I am sorry that she was ever in the Liberal Democrats."
Labour's Stockton North MP Alex Cunningham released a statement:
"Liz Truss might be resigning but the damage she has left in her wake is immense, and it is working people who are paying the price for her short-lived but catastrophic economic experiment.
"But the mess is not hers alone, it is the result of over twelve years of Conservative government that has cut public services to the bone, increased hardship for people, and destroyed our finances.
"Replacing the person at the top isn’t good enough. We must have a chance at a fresh start. We need a general election, and we need it now."
Andy McDonald, MP for Middlesbrough, said: "The past 45 days have been the most disastrous premiership; the most dysfunctional government taking a wrecking ball to our economy and it is ordinary people who are paying the price.
"It’s not just Liz Truss that needs to go - it is the whole Tory Party. We cannot have another Tory leadership campaign. Enough is enough.
"We have to bring this national nightmare to an end and put this country on a secure footing as a matter of supreme urgency. We need a general election now."
Durham City MP, Mary Kelly Foy, said;
“Liz Truss may be gone but the carousel of Conservative chaos has not departed Downing Street.
"The Tory Party inflicted Liz Truss upon this country and ordinary working people are now poorer as a consequence.
"Those who crashed the economy cannot be trusted to clean up the mess.
"So much has changed since 2019 that Conservative continuity is not an option.
"The British people must decide - we must have a general election.”