{"id":12002,"date":"2022-10-21T03:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T01:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/?p=12002"},"modified":"2022-10-21T03:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T01:37:34","slug":"liz-truss-resigns-as-uks-prime-minister-after-six-weeks-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/liz-truss-resigns-as-uks-prime-minister-after-six-weeks-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Truss resigns as UK\u2019s prime minister after six weeks in office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Liz Truss resigned from her office after spending only six weeks as UK\u2019s prime minister. Truss’s resignation came on October 20, 2022, as she said that she \u201ccannot deliver the mandate\u201d on which she had been elected.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liz Truss announced her resignation by stating, \u201cI recognize, though, given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative party.\u201d Truss said that she would remain in the office until her successor has been chosen, which is expected next week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The departure after 45 days in the office makes Liz Truss the shortest-serving PM in UK history. Truss was heavily criticized for her economic agenda soon after she took charge of 10 Downing Street. The conservative leader faced immense chaos after unveiling her economic plan last week causing a severe crash in the market and collapsing the party\u2019s poll rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After facing a backlash from within and outside the British parliament, her Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt rolled back all of her economic agenda, intensifying the pressure on her even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truss\u2019s time in the office mostly consisted of her attempting to control her faltering administration by changing finance minister and juggling between policies to curb taxes while trying to decrease the cost of living. The chaotic session at the House of Commons on the night of October 19 lead to her resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truss took the office in September 2022 after defeating former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak in a race that began in July this year after Boris Johnson resigned as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party. She became the country\u2019s third female Prime Minister after Margret Thatcher and Theresa May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lizz Truss defeated former chancellor Rishi Sunak in the summer’s Tory Party election. (Image Credit: PA Media)<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The UK is facing several crises. The looming threat of recession and skyrocketing inflation has badly clutched the economic well-being of the common man. The 47-year-old Oxford-born and Oxford graduate Liz Truss promised to tackle the rising inflation and energy crisis, which she failed to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truss\u2019s short-lived time as the UK\u2019s prime minister was full of major highlights. Apart from facing a severe economic crisis in her country, she faced a major security situation related to the ongoing war in Ukraine. With her inclination towards the EU, some analysts were expecting her to bring the UK closer to, if not back into, the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon after she took office, Britain\u2019s longest-ruling monarch Queen Elizabeth II passed away, leaving the UK in a global spotlight as her funeral continued for ten days in the country\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the current economic crises and political chaos, Truss\u2019s former leadership rival Rishi Sunak seems to be the most eligible and favorite candidate to replace her. Sunak resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer during Boris Johnson\u2019s government which led to its fall. Some political analysts also believe that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson would run for the office and he is also being deemed as one of the favorite candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The view outside Buckingham Palace in London after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. (Image Credit: WTAE TV\/Twitter)<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

UK opposition demands general election<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britain\u2019s opposition parties have called for an immediate general election following the resignation of two prime ministers in four months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labour leader Keir Starmer said the Conservative party no longer had the mandate to govern and said that \u201cthe British people deserve so much better than this revolving door of chaos\u201d. Starmer stressed: \u201cWe must have a chance at a fresh start. We need a general election \u2013 now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Liberal Democrats, the SNP and the Green Party have also reiterated the call for the general election. Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said: “We do not need another Conservative prime minister lurching from crisis to crisis, we need a general election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liz Truss resigned from her office after spending only six weeks as UK\u2019s prime minister. Truss’s resignation came on October 20, 2022, as she said that she \u201ccannot deliver the mandate\u201d on which she had been elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[211,134,72,24,357,71,593,61,22,365],"class_list":["post-12002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-britain","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-politics","tag-queen","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/UK-PM-Truss-resigns.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-37A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12008,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions\/12008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}