Dr Eleanor Jackson has commented following Liz Truss’ resignation yesterday, saying: “True to form, the melodrama created by Liz Truss in the death throes of her administration on Wednesday night disrupted three Labour party meetings held successively as we gear up for the next elections.

“Angela Raynor’s ‘Bring it on’ is echoed at all levels of the Party. The only problem is, those chaotic scenes in Parliament and the general nastiness Ms Truss generated in streams of ignorance, incompetence and prejudice make it difficult to persuade the thoroughly decent ordinary residents of Bath and North East Somerset to stand.

“Tolstoy has one of his characters speculating at the end of ‘War and Peace’ about why it is so easy for evil to prevail, when the far more numerous good people could unite to overcome it.

“Mercifully we are united over Ukraine, and many of us want to see public service workers, railway workers, care workers and nurses and all those who so heroically kept going during covid paid a decent wage. I don’t actually know many Tories either who would deny children a good education, and freedom from hunger, cold and bullying. Pantomines are great fun at Christmas, but we need to deal with reality now, not just hopefully rub Aladdin’s lamp – which with the cost of living we could not afford to fill.”

Dr Eleanor Jackson in a personal capacity