Rishi Sunak took aim at Liz Truss during his first address to the nation as prime minister saying "mistakes were made" while she was in office.
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Liz Truss looks like she is a leader ‘totally out of her depth’, according to voters in Manchester, with the vast majority calling for a general election.
This morning, new chancellor Jeremy Hunt — already Ms Truss’ second after a matter of weeks — revealed a swathe of U-turns and reversals of the disastrous mini-budget Kwasi Kwarteng announced last month. Many of the measures go against Ms Truss’ ‘pro-growth’ campaign she won the Tory leadership contest with.
It means there is a mounting feeling among politicians, commentators, and voters, that the Prime Minister is walking wounded, and entering her final few weeks of office. In the aftermath of the chancellor’s statement, those calls only intensified.
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“Liz Truss is totally out of her depth,” Manchester Evening News reader Sue Girdlestone said. “She needs to resign. We need a general election.”
Another reader, Pete Rogers, added: “Any thoughts for the population of the country they would hold a general election. Only bothered about themselves then they won’t, my guess is that we know which they are.”
Ellen Cummins echoed those sentiments: “Definitely time for a General election, it's our lives they're playing with, we deserve to have our say.” And Stephen Molynoodles added: “He's De facto prime minister and no one voted for him to be so.”
The final comment was one seized upon by Labour politicians in the city-region. Quoting a Tweet which asked if Ms Truss or Mr Hunt were really ‘in charge’, deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said: “Neither. They’re unfit to govern.”
She also tweeted a photo of the Chancellor with the door for No 10 Downing Street in the
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