Morecambe MP calls on Prime Minister to resign

The Prime Minister is facing growing calls to resign after last week’s local election results in some parts of the country.

Some ministerial aides have also handed in their resignation amid the chaos.

Mrs Collinge said she has taken time to reflect on the situation.

And she said that despite being “immensely proud” of the progressive and important legislation passed in the last two years, she believes the PM has “lost the confidence of the country”.

“We had a very difficult inheritance from 14 years of destructive Conservative government, and any Prime Minister would have struggled to solve the problems our country faces in two years,” Mrs Collinge said.

“I also recognise that the Prime Minister has led us through some extremely difficult international situations with skill and I thank him for that.

"However, it is clear to me that the Prime Minister has now lost the confidence of the country. And as an MP, my first duty is to my constituents and to my country. It is for this reason that I am now calling on the Prime Minister to step back and arrange an orderly transition to new leadership."

Mrs Collinge said she believes a Prime Minister is needed “who can show the country what progress we have made and can still make”.

“Labour don’t offer simplistic slogans, we offer real solutions,” she said. “Governing a country requires compromise and hard choices, and we're the only party who faces up to that.

“We also face some opposition that simply operates outside the norms of decency and honesty. I have seen this locally and nationally. We need to fight to steer our country away from the terrible future they want, a future riven with division and with policies based on prejudice and ideology, not facts, evidence or positive values.

“I love our country and I love the people in it. I will keep on working to make life better for every person in Morecambe and Lunesdale, and for every person in the UK.”

Lancaster MP Cat Smith has been contacted for comment.