{"id":100520,"date":"2022-10-20T19:35:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=100520"},"modified":"2022-10-20T19:35:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:35:29","slug":"after-44-days-in-office-liz-truss-resigns-becomes-shortest-serving-uk-prime-minister-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/after-44-days-in-office-liz-truss-resigns-becomes-shortest-serving-uk-prime-minister-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"After 44 days in office, Liz Truss resigns; becomes shortest-serving UK Prime Minister in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1747215104465037756\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lizz Truss has announced her resignation as British Prime Minister after a chaotic 44 days in office during which she lost the confidence of her Conservative Party Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public and oversaw economic turbulence.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">She is set to become the shortest-serving Prime Minister in history after she battled an open revolt from Conservatives demanding her departure.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking from a lectern in Downing Street, Truss said on Thursday she had told King Charles III she was resigning as the leader of the Conservative Party as she recognised she \u201ccannot deliver the mandate\u201d that Tory members gave her little over six weeks ago.She held talks with the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservatives Graham Brady and agreed to a fresh leadership election \u201cto be completed within the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plan and maintain our country\u2019s economic stability and national security,\u201d she added, as she was accompanied by husband Hugh O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Labour leader, Keir Starmer, demanded a general election \u201cnow\u201d so that the nation can have \u201ca chance at a fresh start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her resignation came just a little over 24 hours after she told MPs she was a \u201cfighter, not a quitter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lizz Truss has announced her resignation as British Prime Minister after a chaotic 44 days in office during which she lost the confidence of her Conservative Party Members of Parliament&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>After 44 days in office, Liz Truss resigns; 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