Liz Truss’s resignation

Rebecca Newsom, Head of Politics at Greenpeace UK, said: “Liz Truss has gone and her climate-wrecking, nature-harming, economy-busting agenda should go with her. The country has given this failed ideology a go, and no one liked it – not the market, not the people, not even Truss’s own party.

“This sorry saga has shown us that a prime minister who makes the rich richer, puts fossil fuel profits before people’s well-being, backs fracking, and scraps nature protections will not last long in office. It’s fitting that her government’s last ruinous act was to force their own MPs to break a manifesto commitment by voting for an unpopular, unproven fracking industry that has no future. The lesson for whoever succeeds Liz Truss as prime minister, and the government as a whole, couldn’t be clearer.”