Liz Truss storms off stage after lettuce banner stunt

Liz Truss stormed off stage at an event to promote her book after she was targeted by campaigners joking about the lettuce that outlasted her time in Downing Street.

The former prime minister was speaking in Suffolk on Tuesday in support of her memoir Ten Years to Save the West when the event was ambushed by a remote-controlled banner.

Ms Truss, who lost her seat at the general election last month, was in office for just 49 days before a backlash to her mini-budget from the market and Tory MPs forced her resignation.

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[marknicholson]

Her pension for that 47 days is over three times what I get after 40 years of actual work.
She needs to hand it back. If we can’t pay careers we can’t afford her.

[AzureSky]

Out milking her 5 minutes of fame to the last drop

[fahbassad]

The way it slowly floats down got me dead

[sphinx]

Green dress to coordinate with the lettuce!

[findaxelfoley]

LOL AND SHE WAS WEARING GREEN! THATS JUST PERFECT!! ITS SLOW DESCENT BEHIND HER GAVE ME CHILLS!! BRAVO!! BRAVO!!! CLASSIC!

[seajay]

Nothing like being called out for her chronic incompetence and her lack of empathy with the electorate

[BoomerEmperor]

A little unfair, the lettuce didn't crash anything, it would have been a better PM than Truss, who did do the crashing.

Lettuce Liz....The thought processes her mind has are quite dangerous

[Claudefather]

Good!! she shouldn't dare show her face on public until she has taken responsibility and apologies for everyone's mortgages/bills going up hundreds of £

[PP-xmoz]

50p for the gall to turn up and speak as an authority of anything, including lettuce

[bauer]

Come on Starmer, arrests need to be made

[SNAFUferret]

Her lettuce green dress has more political credibility than her.

[kellypaws]

She is an embarrassment to Britain, to politics and herself.

The last one she is blissfully unaware of, but the other two actually matter.

[williamhall]

"That isn't funny" My favorite Liz Truss quote.

[susansantapola]

She has some brass neck to show her face after what she has done, dont know when it will sink in that no one is interested in what she thinks.

[joeyjoejoejunior]

"Storms" off stage? Yeah... no. Clickbait.

[martinhumble]

Civil protest, hunourus and without hate. Great!

[Valhalla]

After Johnson, she is the biggest fool in British history.

[ganrimmonim]

She doesn't have much aplomb, does she? Crack a joke and carry on?

[homewithemma]

E Truss earns enough from her short spat as PM and so she really needs to man-up and endure this gentle kind of comical criticism with more maturity and courage. The talk she was giving did sound as dull as ditch so probably a relief she collected her chattles and took off?