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At 1:35 pm, Truss announced her resignation as the leader of the Conservative Party and as prime minister. She gave the following 89-second-long statement: I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills.
On the same day, the Daily Star 's video team began broadcasting a livestream of an iceberg lettuce next to a framed photograph of Truss, asking the audience whether Truss would be able to outlast the lettuce. [7] [8] The Daily Star hosted the livestream with the title "LIVE: Can Liz Truss outlast a lettuce?" on YouTube.
WATCH: Liz Truss begins appointing Cabinet after becoming PM. 9.49pm. Liz Truss spoke with Joe Biden on Tuesday evening, Downing Street said, with the US president congratulating her on her ...
After just seven weeks in No 10, she will hand over to new Tory leader Rishi Sunak.
Campaign logo. Liz Truss launched her bid to succeed Boris Johnson on 10 July 2022. [4] During the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, Truss pledged to cut taxes by scrapping the National Insurance rise that had previously been announced in April 2022, scrapping the recent corporation tax rise and she also promised to remove green energy levies.
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The Truss ministry was formed from the 2019 Parliament of the United Kingdom, as a Conservative majority government. [2] On 20 October 2022, amid growing disapproval of her leadership from within the Conservative Party, Truss announced her resignation, making her tenure the shortest in the history of the United Kingdom. She resigned as ...
Liz Truss has given a notably short resignation speech outside No 10, reflecting the record-breaking brevity of her time as Prime Minister. After only 44 days in office, the outgoing leader spent ...