Just 44 days after she stood at the same lectern in the same spot to deliver her maiden speech as Prime Minister Liz Truss addressed a shocked nation to resign.
The Union and Ukraine flags hung limply on the No10 flagpoles in the breezeless Westminster sky as, just before 1.35pm, humiliated Truss emerged from behind the world’s most famous black door to quit.
“Resign!” cried a heckler with a loudhailer in Whitehall.
