(TheRedAlertNews.com) – BREAKING NOW: Just moments ago, after a series of missteps in reading the mood of her own conservative party, United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned after the shortest time in the office of any UK Prime Minister in history.
As the New York Post captures what happened:
“Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced she would step down from office Thursday after serving just six weeks in office.
“Truss’ tumultuous stint was marked by a fiscal fiasco and hostile opposition form her own Conservative Party over her proposal to cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy, which sent financial markets into a weeks-long slide.
“‘I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected,’ she said, a day after pledging to remain in office as ‘a fighter not a quitter.'” [emphasis added]
By way of context:
“Truss, 47, replaced Boris Johnson who resigned over the summer following an ethics scandal that 50 members of the government to quit in protest.
“Britain’s shortest-tenured leader had been welcomed into office by the late Queen Elizabeth days before the monarch died last month.” [emphasis added]
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