So, Liz Truss has gone, writes David Podger of Petersfield Lib Dem Party.

Not too much of a surprise as she’s had the dazed look of a rabbit caught in headlights for much of the week.

Unfortunately, she will not be succeeded by the Daily Star’s wet lettuce as I hear that the lettuce resigned yesterday.

Instead, we will be treated to the unedifying spectacle of Tory MPs fighting like rats in a sack to see who emerges as the next hapless idiot to lead the Conservative Party.

Where once Westminster was an international touchstone for sound governance, it is now an object of ridicule in the world’s press.

In any sensible society, the chaos engulfing British politics would provoke a General Election. But not here.

Too many Tory MPs would end up having to sign on and so precariously cling on to their political careers for as long as they can.

The Conservative Party has lost the confidence of the British people to govern any longer at any level of government.

The local elections in May of next year give us the chance to send the message that it is time that the Conservatives slink off to some dark cave somewhere, never to emerge again.

For now, all I can do is to echo the words of Oliver Cromwell to the Rump Parliament in 1653. “It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing lately, in the name of God go.”