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- Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned as UK prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party in a statement outside Downing Street
- She said she could not deliver the mandate on which she was elected as Tory leader and had notified the King that she was resigning
- A Conservative leadership election will be completed within the next week, she said
- “I will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen,” she said
- Her departure after 45 days in office makes her the shortest-serving PM in UK history
- Truss’s premiership has been in turmoil since her mini-budget last month, which rocked markets and was later scrapped by her new chancellor
- The resignation of her home secretary on Wednesday and a chaotic vote in the Commons sealed her fate. (BBC)
