New PM has a clear duty to Britain in this spiralling crisis – stop the fighting and DELIVER

LABOUR PM Harold Wilson first coined the immortal phrase: “A week is a long time in politics.’’

But if that’s true then eight weeks is an eternity.

That is how long the Tory leadership race has been running

This internal party election to find our next Prime Minister feels like it has dragged on longer than the Thirty Years War.

And we STILL don’t have the winner.

During that time the energy price cap has nearly doubled, the wholesale price of gas has rocketed, inflation has hit double digits and the pound has crashed.

These are dramatic and sustained economic shocks which have terrified millions of voters.

They demand dynamic government action.

Instead we have seen outgoing PM Boris Johnson crippled on policy while Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak can only mouth broad opinions at the interminable series of debates. If, as is widely expected, Ms Truss is crowned tomorrow she will be the fourth Tory PM in six years.

That is a shameful record for a party which now seems to regard the post of PM as no more secure than that of a Premier League football manager.

At a time of national economic emergency it smacks of contempt for the electorate who voted in Boris Johnson with an 80-seat majority less than three years ago.

Sun readers are angry and rightly so.

Our poll today shows not just that 86 per cent of voters are worried about their soaring energy bills but that 81 per cent rightly think the government has done nowhere near enough to help.

After keeping our borders secure, the next duty of government is to help keep voters warm and fed.

The figures make grim reading.

They also reflect a national mood of despair which the new PM must address from day one.

If it’s Liz Truss who stands on the steps of No10, she must announce an immediate emergency package to help the poorest and emphasise that the time for internal party divisions is over.

Voters are sick and tired of the civil war which ousted Boris Johnson and even now threatens unity under the new party leader.

It must end here.

The Tories have left us paralysed for months in this spiralling crisis.

The new Prime Minister has a clear duty to Britain.

Stop the fighting and DELIVER.