A general election needs to be held immediately, Manchester Evening News readers have said after Liz Truss resigned - bringing her tumultuous 44-day spell as Prime Minister to an end.
In a statement outside Downing Street this afternoon announcing she was standing down Ms Truss said: “I recognise… given the situation I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party. ”
She said a leadership election to choose her successor would now take place and would be completed within the next week.
