Liz Truss has announced her resignation as prime minister after 44 days in office.
She is set to become the shortest serving prime minister in history after she lost the confidence of Tory MPs and the public and oversaw economic turbulence. Speaking from a lectern in Downing Street, Ms Truss said she had told the King she was resigning as the leader of the Conservative Party.
There will now be a leadership election to be completed within the next week she said, after speaking to the leader of the 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady, in No 10. It comes just a little over 24 hours after she told MPs she was a "fighter, not a quitter".
