20th October, 2022
United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Liz Truss has announced her resignation after just one month and some days of being PM.
She announced her resignation outside Downing Street, saying that she had told King Charles she is resigning as leader of the Conservative Party.
Truss was confirmed Prime Minister on 6 September, 2022.
Truss said she could not deliver the mandate on which she was elected as Tory leader and had notified the King that she was resigning.
She stated that she would remain as Prime Minister until a successor has been chosen.
Her decision came after she met the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs as more Tories called for her to quit, according to the BBC.
Her premiership came under renewed pressure after the home secretary resigned and a chaotic vote on fracking.
There was fury on Wednesday evening around the vote and the methods used to get MPs to vote with the government.
Truss, in front of dozens of reporters, said she came into office at a time of “great economic and international instability”.
She said the country had been held back by low economic growth for too long and that she was elected by her party with a “mandate to change this”.
She added that her government delivered on energy bills and cutting national insurance, and had set out a vision for a “low tax high growth economy”.
She adds: “I recognise… given the situation I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.”
Truss said she met with 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady today and that they agreed there would be a leadership election within the next week.
She said this would ensure “that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our country’s economic stability and national security”.