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| The Conservative Party leader had lost the support of MPs after a botched ‘mini-budget’ | The Conservative Party leader had lost the support of MPs after a botched ‘mini-budget’ |
| British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation, having spent just 45 days in office. The outgoing PM is the shortest-serving premier in UK history. | British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation, having spent just 45 days in office. The outgoing PM is the shortest-serving premier in UK history. |
| Truss’ rapid downfall follows a series of political missteps and the resignation of several members of her government, including Home Secretary, Suella Braverman earlier this week. | Truss’ rapid downfall follows a series of political missteps and the resignation of several members of her government, including Home Secretary, Suella Braverman earlier this week. |
| Pressure for Truss to step down from within her own Conservative party has been mounting since last month. | |
| Speaking outside 10 Downing Street, Truss said she had tendered her resignation as leader of the Conservative Party to King Charles. | |
| She acknowledged that she could not “deliver the mandate” she had been elected on in early September, adding that she came to power at a time of “great economic and international instability.” | |
| Truss also revealed that a vote to determine the Conservative Party’s new leader, and the UK’s new head of government, will be held “in the next week.” For the time being, she will remain in a caretaker capacity, the outgoing PM added. | |
| With just 45 days in office, Truss has become the shortest-serving prime minister in the country’s history. Previously, George Canning held that dubious distinction, having stayed in office for 119 days before passing away in 1827. |