A revolving door at Downing Street, which recycles former Cabinet ministers who were at the very heart of previously disastrous regimes, will not wash – we need a general election, says Carolyn Harris
When Rishi Sunak became the fifth prime minister in six years last week, he did so without any opposition and without a single vote from the electorate.
A default figure in No10, who just weeks earlier had less support from his own party than a woman who, in her 49 days in office, crashed the economy and plunged the country into chaos.
We are a nation in turmoil with those who can least afford it paying the price for 12 years of Tory failure.
It does not matter which of them has the job, collectively the Conservatives have proved time and again that their priorities lie not with the people of this country, who are facing the biggest financial crisis in decades, but with their own party and the deep pockets of those closest to them.