It has been a day of chaos in Westminster. The shortest serving Prime Minister in British history has bowed out after just 44 days in office, with her predecessor Boris Johnson on the cusp of a possible return to Downing Street.
Thursday marked a day of political turmoil at Number 10 that stands unparalleled in recent history. Standing at the podium, just six weeks after shaking hands with the Queen and forming a new cabinet, Truss delivered a statement that fired the starting pistol on the race to find a new Prime Minister.
Announcing she would be standing down, she said that she was appointed office 'at a time of economic and international instability', and that she could not 'deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.'
