Boris Johnson leaves a legacy of “scandal and sleaze” in Whitehall which Liz Truss should “clear up”, based on opposition get together MPs.
Labour’s Angela Rayner, the SNP’s Ian Blackford and Liberal Democrat chief Sir Ed Davey blasted Mr Johnson’s “rosy” resignation speech as a far cry from actuality and renewed requires his successor to impose a windfall tax to fight the cost-of-living disaster.
The politicians spoke to the PA information company on Faculty Inexperienced in Westminster, central London, following Mr Johnson’s tackle exterior Quantity 10.
Labour’s deputy chief Ms Rayner mentioned he might be remembered for inflicting “scandal, sleaze and the very best inflation for many years”.
She mentioned: “For those who heard Boris Johnson’s speech this morning, you’d suppose every part was rosy and nice.
“Truly, the legacy is scandal, sleaze, the very best inflation for many years, cost-of-living disaster, individuals’s way of life happening.
“We’ve seen the very best tax burden on the UK and we’ve seen GP ready lists going up, we’ve seen the NHS engulfed in a disaster, we’ve seen our public providers actually demoralised.
“However after all Liz Truss has propped up the prime minister and has voted with the prime minister to help him – whether or not it was the Owen Paterson scandal, or whether or not it was the scenario that we noticed with the billions of kilos of wasted contracts that got out.
“I need to see an actual clear-up, ensure that we see requirements once more in public life, the Nolan Rules once more, but in addition that we have a look at what individuals are dealing with.
“We'd like actual assist and funding for our UK companies which are struggling and for our households in the mean time – I need to see her rocket gasoline that relatively than these empty soundbites that we’ve heard from Boris Johnson.”
Liberal Democrat chief Sir Ed mentioned the outgoing prime minister has “left the nation devastated in his wake”.
“He’s failed the nation on so many ranges whether or not it’s our financial system, the place we’ve obtained the bottom progress of any industrialised nation bar Russia that’s been sanctioned,” he mentioned.
“We’ve obtained inflation going by the roof with rocketing gasoline and vitality and meals costs.
“Now we have file NHS ready lists and a disaster in our healthcare system.
“That is his legacy and it’s a dreadful one. It reveals why he was unfit to be our prime minister within the first place.”
The SNP’s Westminster chief Mr Blackford mentioned Mr Johnson’s authorities had “lurched from one disaster to a different” and known as for a normal election.
He mentioned: “I’m simply glad that it’s over as a result of it is a prime minister who, I believe, has undermined the workplace he has held.
“I want him and his household all the perfect however fairly merely he wasn’t the appropriate individual to be prime minister of this nation – so many issues that he’s performed.
“I imply the truth that he was a main minister who broke the legislation whereas in workplace, disrespected the foundations, the legal guidelines he put in place, and I believe that many individuals simply merely couldn't recover from a main minister who thought the foundations weren’t for him.
“That’s over and we now transfer on.”