Pretty please, can we just have a general election now?

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I agree with Nadine Dorries is a phrase I never thought I’d write (Getty Images)

I agree with Nadine Dorries is a phrase I never thought I’d write. But I agree with Ms Dorries’s leaked WhatsApp messages that said replacing Liz Truss without a general election is “the most undemocratic process imaginable” and, if done, the Tories might as well “embrace dictatorship”.

Truss just sacked her chancellor and close ally, which, as Tom Peck rightly points out, confirms that she has got everything hopelessly wrong. The response increasingly seems to be another sacking of another prime minister by their own party – that’s instead of by the whole British electorate along with, if we so choose, the Tories that appointed such a rubbish PM in the first place.

I’m all for Truss going. But please, oh pretty please, can we just have a general election now? Please?

Ian Henderson

Norwich

Don’t mix business with pleasure

The Truss/Kwarteng partnership was a marriage of convenience based on “growth, growth, growth”. But it had no appreciation that their kamikaze tactics would reap havoc. The danger is that “close friends” and “soulmates” sometimes distract and cloud personal and political judgements. But does Truss have any political acumen anyway? I think we know the answer already!

Gordon Ronald

Herts

What we need is an election

“What the nation needs right now is stability,” repeated Liz Truss goodness knows how many times in eight minutes of complete farce in her press conference yesterday. With every word she utters, Liz Truss is achieving exactly the opposite and, with every day that passes, the decisions she makes drag the country deeper into the mire. We are witnessing the very fabric of democracy unravel as this government reaches a point where it is unable to properly fulfil its duties. The musical chairs have to stop and a general election must be held if only to halt the country’s downward spiral into economic oblivion.

J Wells

Alresford

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Putting egotistical fantasy in the past

Jeremy Hunt is going to have his work cut out to start to rebuild trust in the government, particularly when the instigator and driver of the chaos is still nominally in charge. He needs clear and unambiguous signals that egotistical fantasy is in the past and normal service is now resumed. A strong message would be given if he restored Sir Tom Scholar as permanent secretary at the Treasury.

Ultimately, the only cast-iron assurance that the country and the markets will believe is the resignation of the prime minister with blood on her hands.

Tim Sidaway

Hertfordshire

Unable to form a government

If Liz Truss is forced to stand down as prime minister after only a few months, would that not prove that the Conservatives are unable to form a government? Of course, Labour does not have a majority, so the obvious course for the incoming prime minister would be to call a general election. This would be unusual but surely preferable to the government being put on hold for a re-run of the farcical Tory leadership contest.

D Maynes

London