Liz Truss Resigns as UK Prime Minister after 6 Weeks in Office
United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation on Thursday, after just six weeks in office.
In a brief statement outside 10 Downing Street, Truss said she “came into office at a time of great economic and international instability.”
“I was elected by the Conservative Party with a mandate to change this,” she said. “We delivered on energy bills and on cutting national insurance. We set out a vision for a low tax, high growth economy that would take advantage of the freedoms of Brexit.”
“I recognize, though, given the situation, that I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party,” she continued. “I have, therefore, spoken to his majesty, the King, to notify him that I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party.”
Truss also announced that “there will be a leadership election within the next week” to “ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our country’s economic stability and national security.”
Truss will remain in office until a successor is chosen as the next prime minister.
According to The Christian Post, Truss was elected as prime minister in early September after her predecessor, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, resigned in July. She previously served as former foreign secretary. As a conservative, she was in favor of tax cuts and spoke out against “woke” politics.
A day before resigning, Truss declared she was “a fighter and not a quitter” when it came to criticisms from her own party over her economic proposals.
Shortly after the resignation announcement, Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Kramer, published a statement calling for a general election. He argued that Britons “deserve a proper say on the country’s future.”
“After 12 years of Tory failure, the British people deserve so much better than this revolving door of chaos. In the last few years, the Tories have set record-high taxation, trashed our institutions and created a cost-of-living crisis,” Starmer stated.
“The Tories cannot respond to their latest shambles by yet again simply clicking their fingers and shuffling the people at the top without the consent of the British people,” he added. “They do not have a mandate to put the country through yet another experiment.”
Truss, who is the third female to become UK’s prime minister, held the shortest term in office in the nation’s history.
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Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer. He is also the co-hosts of the For Your Soul podcast, which seeks to equip the church with biblical truth and sound doctrine. Visit his blog Blessed Are The Forgiven.
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