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Factbox-Liz Truss resignation: who were the UK’s shortest serving prime ministers?

Liz Truss resigned as prime minister on Thursday 44 days after starting the job, making her Britain's shortest-serving premier.

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Liz Truss promised UK a shakeup — but was forced out instead

Liz Truss became prime minister on a promise to open a new era of growth by shaking up Britain’s economy

The Independent UK

As the Tories implode, Britain’s unions are powering up – and more than ready for the fight

Union leaders see themselves as a third force in politics, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Liz Truss seals her place in history as Britain's shortest-ever serving PM

The soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister has secured a humiliating record

Wales Online

Biden not concerned about UK upheaval hurting the U.S. economy

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said he was not worried about the UK's political upheaval from the resignation of British Prime Minister Liz Truss hitting the U.S. economy.

Reuters

Liz Truss' destiny: Shortest tenure as UK prime minister

Liz Truss will go down in history as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, a leader whose grasp on power was so tenuous in recent days it spawned a jokey online contest to see whether she would outlast a head of lettuce

The Independent UK

Macron wishes UK a 'rapid return to stability' after Truss resignation

British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced Thursday her resignation as Conservative Party leader after just six weeks in power and said her successor would be elected by the end of next week. France's President Emmanuel Macron wishes the UK "a rapid return to stability."

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Russia says Liz Truss was a ‘catastrophically illiterate disgrace’ of a PM OLD

‘Britain has never known such a disgrace of a prime minister,’ says Moscow

The Independent UK

Liz Truss’s 44-day leadership in quotes: From fighter to quitter

A look back at what she has said since winning the Conservative Party leadership battle

Evening Standard

British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after tumultuous 6-week term

Truss, who said she will remain in office for a few more days, has been prime minister for just 45 days.

Chicago Sun-Times

Liz Truss’s leadership in quotes: From fighter to quitter

A look back at what she has said since winning the Conservative Party leadership battle.

The Independent UK

UK's Sunak, Mordaunt in running to be next PM - Sky

Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt, two contenders in Britain's previous leadership contest this year, are believed to be in the running to become the nation's next prime minister following Liz Truss's resignation on Thursday, Sky News reported.

Reuters

How Liz Truss's brief and chaotic tenure as Britain's PM unravelled

Whether it was sexism that brought her down, her inexperience and overconfidence, her party's unravelling, or a combination of all three, Liz Truss plunged over the glass cliff with breathtaking speed.

ABC News

The mini-budget that broke Britain – and Liz Truss

From soaring mortgage costs to a sterling slump, the fiscal event set off a chain of chaos that led to PM’s downfall

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Evening Standard

Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister after just 44 days in power

Liz Truss announced on Thursday she was quitting after just 44 days in No10, becoming Britain’s shortest serving Prime Minister. Speaking in Downing Street shortly after 1.30pm, she told the nation she was resigning after an open revolt by Tory MPs against her chaotic and crisis-hit premiership.

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Putin Could Be Replaced By More Extreme Leader, Warns Former UK Spy Chief

The former head of Britain's MI6 recently said Russian President Vladimir Putin could be replaced by someone more extreme

Daily Mirror

Former Children's Laureate joins calls for Black history to be compulsory in UK schools

Malorie Blackman who is best known for Noughts and Crosses which was turned into a BBC drama, said that history lessons should tell “the whole truth” about Britain's role in slavery.

Evening Standard

Britain cannot afford chaos of Conservatives any more, says Starmer

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Conservative Party needs to keep the future of the British people out of its “pathetic squabbles”.He said the Tories have wrecked national and household finances, adding: “Britain deserves better, Britain cannot afford the chaos of the Conservatives any more; we need a general…

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Evening Standard

Long Covid could become ‘millstone hanging around the NHS’, expert warns

An estimated 2.3 million people in Britain have self-reported long Covid, according to latest figures from the Office of National Statistics

The Guardian - UK

EU media and leaders blame Brexit for UK political ‘insanity’ as Truss quits

Observers suggest PM’s failure could spell end of ‘wishful thinking’ of a sovereign UK going its own way

Daily Mirror

Russian warplane fired missile 'in vicinity of' RAF jet after being closely shadowed

Ben Wallace told parliament Britain had suspended patrols following the incident and expressed their concerns to Russia's Defence Minister

Reuters

Child sex abuse in Britain is epidemic, UK inquiry says

Child sex abuse is epidemic in Britain, affecting millions of victims, and those who work with young people should be prosecuted if they fail to report it, a seven-year public inquiry concluded on Thursday.

Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham says it's 'very hard to see' Liz Truss surviving and that Tories have 'forfeited the right to govern'

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, meanwhile, has angrily called for a general election 'now'

The Independent UK

Starmer lambasts Tories’ ‘pathetic squabbles’ and calls for general election

The Labour leader told the TUC congress the Government had reached a ‘a new chaotic low’.

Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer demands general election now after Tories hit 'chaotic new low'

The Labour leader ripped into Liz Truss's collapsing Government, saying the 'failures of the past twelve years have now come to the boil' but the Tories can only focus on 'pathetic squabbles'

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