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Video: Liz Truss makes first speech as Prime Minister 6.06pm US President Joe Biden has congratulated Liz Truss on becoming Prime Minister and vowed to deepen the “special relationship”.
Liz Truss gave her maiden speech as Prime Minister beneath stormy skies after torrential downpours over Downing Street threatened to delay her address to the nation.
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Four days after Truss delivered the speech, parts of the video were featured on the satirical panel show Have I Got News For You; [104] the awkward, stilted delivery led her to be mocked and clips of the speech went viral online. [105]
After just seven weeks in No 10, she will hand over to new Tory leader Rishi Sunak.
Liz Truss, the shortest-serving British prime minister in history, was standing for re-election as MP. On 2 July, in anticipation of a large Labour victory in the general election, a national poll of voters by Portland Communications had shown that Truss was the Conservative politician most people (28%) wanted to see lose their seat.
The short-lived former prime minister will address a gathering of US right-wingers on Thursday.
This live blog has now ended. 4.11pm. ... Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told the PA news agency: “Liz Truss trashed our economy and before her Boris Johnson failed our country.