Liz Truss said on Thursday she was resigning as prime minister, brought down by her economic programme that sent shockwaves through the markets and divided her Conservative Party just six weeks after she was appointed. Liz Truss resigns as UK Prime Minister amid political crisis.
In six weeks as prime minister, Truss had been forced to abandon almost all her policy programme after it triggered a bond market rout and a collapse of her approval ratings and those of her Conservative Party.
Since last Friday she has lost two of the four most senior ministers in government, sat expressionless in parliament as her new finance minister ripped up her economic plans and faced howls of laughter as she tried to defend her record.
“We can’t go on like this,” one Conservative lawmaker told Reuters late on Wednesday, of the chaotic scenes in parliament.
Just minutes before the vote, however, Truss’ government said it would no longer be taken as a confidence vote. The reversal led to confusion, which descended into chaos as the Conservatives’ chief whip, whose authority had been undermined by the late change in plans, reportedly resigned. Hours later, Truss’ office said the whip remained in her job, which only increased the private outcry from party members over the mayhem.
One Conservative MP was quoted anonymously by multiple British news outlets as deriding the debacle as “the most bullying, screaming and shouting” they had ever seen, while another was heard saying, “I am f****** furious and I don’t give a f*** any more.”
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Charles Walker, a senior Conservative member of parliament, expressed his outrage to a BBC News crew that was covering the events live as they unfolded inside the House of Commons.
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