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Liz Truss Quits, Economic Crisis Forces UK PM To Leave Office In Just 45 Days

UL PM Liz Truss resigned amid calls from within her Conservative Party to step down from the top job just six weeks after she entered 10, Downing Street.

Written by: Manmath Nayak
Updated: October 20, 2022, 6:48 PM IST
Liz Truss Quits
Liz Truss’s resignation was expected after her policies triggered economic turmoil and backlash from several quarters.

London: Liz Truss on Thursday resigned as UK Prime Minister amid calls from within her Conservative Party to step down from the top job merely six weeks after she entered 10, Downing Street. The move comes after Truss held a hastily arranged meeting with a Conservative official tasked with assessing whether the prime minister still has the support of Tory members of Parliament.

“Given the situation, I cannot carry out the mandate for which I was elected…I will remain as Prime Minister until a successor has been chosen,” Truss told reporters after tendering her resignation.

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“I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills, Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine threatens the security of our whole continent and our country has been held back for too long by low economic growth,” she added .
The development comes a day after Indian-origin Home Secretary Suella Braverman tendered her resignation, citing “technical infringement of the rules” she committed while sending official documents to a parliamentary colleague.
“Pretending we haven’t made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can’t see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics. I have made a mistake, I accept responsibility; I resign,” Braverman said in a letter posted on her Twitter handle.
In the letter addressed to PM Truss, she also expressed concerns about the direction of the government and said key pledges made to voters have been broken.
Braverman said she committed “technical infringement of the rules” by sending official documents from her personal email to a parliamentary colleague.
Braverman’s resignation comes less than a week after UK Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng was fired after serving for even less than six weeks. Kwarteng was sacked after the new government’s September 23 plan of massive tax cuts resulted in the plunging of British government bonds. Truss had succeeded Boris Johnson as PM last month.

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