This past Thursday, Liz Truss officially resigned as the British Prime Minister, marking the end of a worrying and stormy 45-day sting in office that fulfilled the predictions of many critics who heavily doubted the leadership of the conservative politician from the very beginning.
After taking the role from Boris Johnson back on the 6th of September in the wake of beating out Rishi Sunak via a Conservative Party leadership contest, Truss finally realized that she was not up to the task of dealing with the challenges her country faced. The U.K. is not being forced to deal with intense runaway inflation and it is also looking down the barrel of entering winter with fuel prices still climbing at an insane rate.
“I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability,” expressed Truss in a release read just outside No. 10 Downing Street, where she expressed her decision to King Charles. “Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills.”
As she made the claim to have initiated inroads regarding the energy crisis, she pointed out that she “cannot deliver the mandate” for which was elected.
“I recognize, though, given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party,” she stated. “I have therefore spoken to His Majesty the King to notify him that I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party.”
the brief time that Truss held the office was hallmarked by economic chaos and an aborted proposal regarding a tax cut. Many Tory Mps have stepped forward to publically call for her to step down, whilst others expressed their agreement with the statement more privately.
Liz Truss to resign as prime minister, Sky News understands https://t.co/qSULBHB0Xw
— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 20, 2022
As of writing, a new election is slated to take place this coming week in order to choose a leader of the ruling Conservative Party. The early reports show that Johnson could end up returning to the role he held from July 2019 until last month. While highlighting a still unnamed Tory member of Parliament, The Telegraph stated that lawmakers were speaking fairly openly about a “spectacular return” of Johnson.
Truss is expected to remain in office until a successor for her is chosen and ready to take the role over. To go along with this possibility of Johnson making a comeback, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who stood as the replacement for Kwasi Kwarteng, who authored the now-scrapped tax cuts, has been highlighted as a possible successor.
