Liz Truss, lettuce and a lectern: 25 hours of chaos in three minutes

Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after just 45 days in office, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in UK history.

The announcement, made by Truss outside Downing Street, followed a crash in the UK's economy, the departure of two key cabinet members and a loss of confidence by almost all of her own Conservative MPs.

Truss won the leadership race over Rishi Sunak in September; her resignation has sparked yet another contest to be the Tory leader and next prime minister.

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[TheMadAfrican]

Her saying she's a fighter and then quitting literally hours later is one of the funniest things I've ever heard in my life. Just make the evil Tories go away.

[Captn_Slow]

“I am a fighter, not a quitter!”
Literally the next day, “I quit.”

[gio-ozgf]

She still receives £115 000 a year pension for life. For a month in a job where your biggest achievement was crashing a G7 economy, that's not bad. After paying NI contributions for fifty-one years, I receive a pension of just over £8500 per year. Seems fair.

[paolo]

As an Italian this is just so familiar... It's the type of politics we grew up with

[theunexplainablecrumbs]

The Liz, the Lettuce and the Lectern. don't remember C.S Lewis writing that one

[sanpurity]

A General Election should be held immediately for the public to choose and decide who the next Prime Minister of UK should be.

[anderschristensen]

The last few days have to be some of the most embarrassing days in British political history!

[MehnixIsThatGuy]

Lettuce 2022! Replace the human-shaped vegetables with a true, honest one. Only the Lettuce can lead our country out of its crisis.

[willrobertsmith]

at least May had the humanity to blub . showed she gave a toss.
Truss gives her resignation like a 3 month work experience student announcing she is leaving to go backpacking around australia.

[chobblegobbler]

Such incredible discipline…. Could you imagine if these people had to work a real job?

[mvvlm-]

“The lettuce might as well be running the government”

[jamjarr]

And all us Brits thought that American politics was a circus with Trump in charge.

At least he got voted in by the public.

[vinay]

This shows that being "STRONG", and "CONFIDENT", and wanting to be "LIKE MARGARET THATCHER" doesn't get you anywhere. It takes sense, not emotions.

Edit : For the comments below, in this case, with "STRONG" I meant believing in strength as an emotion, while ignoring what constitutes what is referred to as "strength".

[mysticblaze]

Burst out laughing in the first 10 seconds! The Uk is hilarious

[Warriorcats]

And now she's lost her seat entirely!

[FFWorldHD]

3 minutes of comic relief for all of us here at home and the rest of the world, actually 😎

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

- win the vote for Tory leadership
- meet the Queen
- the Queen dies of cringe
- make the crisis even worse
- refuse to elaborate further
- leaves

I'm glad our government isn't chaotic like theirs. The UK needs our help, it appears

[adriandaw]

I'm surprised the pound bouncing back as soon as she resigned wasn't commented on

[sylwekr]

Truss:I am a fighter not a quitter
Also Truss after 25 hours: I resign adios

[roserose-gtif]

At least the lettuce is still edible. No wasting food 👍