Liz Truss has resigned after just six weeks as UK Prime Minister

No prime minister in British history has had a shorter time

Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom – after 45 days in office.

She announced this at a press conference in Downing Street.

Barely a day later Liz Truss She stood up in the British House of Commons and said, “I am a fighter, not a quitter,” and announced her resignation on Thursday. Britain Prime Minister.

At a shocking press conference in Downing Street, she began her speech by noting that she took office at a time of great economic and international instability.

She also addressed the families of Britain, saying that she is aware of the concerns of many families now about their inability to pay their bills.

– I was elected with a mandate to change that, and we delivered the electricity bills and cut off the National Insurance system, says Truss and continues:

– In view of the situation, I cannot fulfill the term for which I have been elected, and I have therefore spoken to the King and announced that I resign, says Liz Truss.

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Liz Truss’ 45 days is a record

The prime minister recently faced heavy criticism from his own party for wanting to implement a debt-financed tax relief package for high earners, among other things, at a time of soaring household prices and high inflation.

In a YouGov poll of 530 conservative parties conducted earlier this week, 55 percent said they wanted Truss to resign.

After an article in The Economist predicted Liz Truss’ walk to be the length of a head of lettuce, the comparison of her to the vegetable became a perpetual joke.

A new prime minister will be elected within a week and in the meantime Truss will remain in office. Conservative MPs rallied all day calling for Truss to resign.

Truss took office as the new Prime Minister of Great Britain on 6 September. Thus she sat for 45 days, and thus became the person who held the office of Prime Minister for the shortest term in Great Britain.

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