In my opinion, he has to go now. The trouble is that, despite their majority, the Tories are no longer a legitimate party of government. They have lost a leader who they (mostly) were backing to the hilt until a few days ago (which says everything about their spineless and disastrous misjudgement), even lying about him in order to protect him. Ministers have left in droves, leaving the country in a state of paralysis. There's no way he can run an effective administration from now until September or October, and such is the disarray in the party that it's hard to see how anyone else can pull the show back together. Somehow, we need a general election. After all this, I can see Starmer winning it, in spite of his deficiencies. He did quite well at PMQs yesterday, but an election campaign is a long time in politics...

I suppose we can have a snap election only if he stays at the helm as PM...Discuss... We can be glad he's going, but what a bloody mess...