The confirmation Liz Truss will be the new Prime Minister is good news for the Midlands and the UK, Lichfield’s MP says.
The Conservative leadership result was confirmed earlier today (5th September) and will see the MP for South West Norfolk succeed Boris Johnson at Number 10.
Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant, who backed the new PM after Penny Mordaunt was knocked out of the race in an earlier round of voting, said the result was a positive one for the country and the local region.
“This result is very good news for the UK and for the Midlands.
“Liz is good friends with many local MPs and the West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street, who are able to feed ideas into her.
“I personally backed Liz so I am really pleased with the result, although I was disappointed Boris was forced to leave in the first place in what was a very British coup.
“But Liz stayed loyal to Boris to the very end and I think that this, along with her plans for Government, made her popular with party members.”
Michael Fabricant
Among the first challenges facing the new occupant of Number 10 will be the cost of living crisis and soaring energy prices.
But Mr Fabricant said he was confident support would arrive sooner rather than later from the new leadership team.
“With a new Prime Minister comes a new Government – and Liz is very aware that she will have to deliver on all her promises.
“In particular, and at the top of her Red Box, will be solving the cost of living crisis caused by the astronomic rise in heating bills.
“I am expecting announcements regarding this by the end of the week. She needs to hit the ground running.”
Michael Fabricant
Mr Fabricant has also called for the party to unite for the good of the party and the country.
“Whether supporters of Liz, Rishi, or Boris, it is important that the party – in Parliament and volunteers – all now unite behind our new leader.
“It has been a destructive few weeks and the public rightly expects Government to make tough and swift decisions regarding all these issues.”
Michael Fabricant
She’ll never get an 80 majority like Boris did !!! And I doubt she’ll stand up to the abuse and witch-hunt like ge did.
Bring back Boris you know he’s the best leader now don’t you ?
Good news!?! More like moving the deck chairs on the Titanic or meet the new boss the same as the old boss. We need a general election to get rid of the Tories and in particular our clown of an MP.
The Ukip/Brexit infiltrators have entered the bloodstream and the parasite is killing the host.
Re: “It has been a destructive few weeks”.
I think you’ll find, Mr Fabricant, that it has been a destructive few years … 12 of them, in fact.
As much as I would give anything for a Labour or Lib Dem govt right now following 12 long years of the gutless Tories, Boris finally getting the heave-ho from Number 10 alone is a good start for me, as I’ve never been able to stand the odious man from the off who has always IMO been ‘reactive’ on feeble-minded whims rather than ‘proactive’ on common sense solutions.
While Truss is unlikely to be absolutely perfect (I mean which politician of any party ever has been), I’m all for at least giving her a chance without all the usual cynical one-upmanship, know-it-all culture that seems to blatantly plague modern-day society in general, where many of us seem so quick to criticise.
I can’t see any good news in Dim Lizzie being our next PM. But then, the Tories staying in power is not good news either. She has always supported Boris the buffoon, which should ring alarm bells. She seems to keep plucking ideas out of thin air in the hope they will make her popular. She has a tenuous grasp of economic reality, and doesn’t seem to have much to say on two other crucial issues- the appalling state of the NHS and climate change. As someone observed, her ambition far exceeds her ability, a common problem amongst Tories. By the way, has anyone told Nicola Sturgeon that Dim Lizzie is being sworn in in Scotland? That will go down like a lead balloon considering the inflammatory comments Dim Lizzie has made about her.
I bet you all a tenner that once all the current media storm and excitement surrounding the current Prime Ministerial changeover finally dies down, they’ll no doubt be back to having digs at Keir Starmer and trying to play the ‘Jimmy Savile apologist’ card once again, which has always been complete and utter BS from the off!
Bring on the next election so that the people of Britain can finally push the Tories out. Enough is enough.
@RJC…. We have had more than a decade of low wages, low interest and poor growth. There are five thousand food banks. Councils, including Lichfield and Staffordshire C. C. are starved of funds. No one argues that it has not been the worst austerity since the war. There is much, much more and recession is almost inevitable.
You really think the Tory record is not worthy of criticism? Do you really think they are capable of addressing the problems. We are talking of real peoples and their lives. For many the future is dire!
I agree with Claire. We’ve had disastrous decisions with chaotic results as she says. It’s really worrying that she supported Boris throughout his leadership, with all the lies, rule-breaking, u turns and wrong decisions. I hope she is at least an honest person with integrity who will take notice of her advisers.
Philip; I think you’ve partly misunderstood me in some of my posts on this particular matter.
Of course the Tory record is most certainly worthy of criticism, and I absolutely share your zero opinion of them as a govt as a whole, but the point I was making was I would like to at least try to give Truss a chance, as despite her being a Tory politician, she seems to have more about her than the last 3 consecutive (Tory) PMs, even though I would ultimately much rather have Labour or at least the Lib Dems in power instead, and I would never be seen dead voting for the Tories.
Nor by the same token UKIP, BNP, nor any other bigoted hard-Right party or MP.
Anyone who thinks we ought to give Liz Truss a chance has not been paying attention. At best, she’s a stooge for Boris’s cronies and will just carry on doing as she’s told. At worst, she’ll have her own ideas and make an even bigger mess of things. We need an election, which is the one thing no Tory is going to give us.
@Carl Sholl… Absolutely correct. To quote Albert Einstein “You can’t solve problems with the same mindset that created them.” We move on with the Tories but the Tories do not move on.
“Well he would say that wouldn’t he”-(Mandy Rice Davies)
Perhaps we could send her off to Peking to sell Pork to the Chinese or to ban the sale of all Continental Cheeses to the UK.
Is the smarmy individual after a job as she selects her backers for the cabinet
This ‘coup’ was by 50 Tory MPs who resigned their ministerial positions because of Johnson’s myriad shortcomings.
Fabricant’s attempt to rewrite history should read, “A very Tory coup.”
Or even “The Night of Long knives”. Professor Pineapple.
Fabricant’s article is pure projection – accusing others of doing what you are doing.
Any coup is from the hard-right fundamentalists of the ERG. The revolution is eating its children.
If Liz Truss’s winning card is loyalty to a PM who sought to exonerate sleaze, Owen Paterson; alleged sexual assault, Pincher; broke laws he implored others to keep at a time of national crisis; and lost the confidence of his own party in Parliament, it says much about her poor judgment and our MP who goes along with it all. Another short term fix until her obvious ineptitude brings her down.
As flies to wanton boys are we to the Tories, our suffering merely sport.
The UK has been invited to join this EU drive to reduce energy costs through … unity. Are people seriously going to reject this because it would mean collaboration with the EU?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62822368
This aged well…