Labour demands a general election

THE new Prime Minister must call an early general election to seek a fresh public mandate, Labour said yesterday.

The party’s health spokesman Wes Streeting said pledges made by Liz Truss to win over the Conservative grassroots differed markedly from the manifesto the Tories were elected on in 2019.

He added the divergence from Boris Johnson’s plans meant she must go ‘to the British people’ to ‘ask for their consent’ to govern.

But Miss Truss said yesterday she plans to lead the party to victory in 2024.