Keir Starmer: UK needs election now whether Liz Truss stays or goes

Labour leader says government is completely at end of the road' and his party is preparing for power

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Keir Starmer has called for a general election now regardless of whether Liz Truss is ousted by the Conservatives, saying the government is completely at the end of the road" and Labour is preparing for power.

In an interview with the Guardian, the Labour leader said Truss had driven the economy into a wall" while trashing our institutions", and changing the prime minister again without allowing the country to vote would not be acceptable.