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UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after six weeks in office
Truss, heavily criticised over her economic agenda, leaves Downing Street six weeks after she was appointed.
Truss, heavily criticised over her economic agenda, leaves Downing Street six weeks after she was appointed.
Liz Truss looks down during a press conference [File: Daniel Leal/pool via AFP)
Published On 20 Oct 202220 Oct 2022
British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation, just a month and a half after taking office.
Thursday’s development came after her new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, rolled back virtually all of her economic agenda.
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Published On 20 Oct 202220 Oct 2022
British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation, just a month and a half after taking office.
Thursday’s development came after her new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, rolled back virtually all of her economic agenda.
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Hunt’s move was supposed to be an impetus for growth, but it became Truss’s declaration of political bankruptcy.
At the beginning of this month, at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, Truss had still attempted to rally the party around her controversial approach of boosting Britain’s economy.
“I have three priorities for the economy: growth, growth, growth,” she said.
But what was supposed to be a change from the tumultuous era of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a sense of chaos under Truss unravelled at a pace that is almost unprecedented in British history, Nicholas Allen, professor of politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, told Al Jazeera.
“Previous prime ministers’ central policies have unravelled very quickly, for instance – Neville Chamberlain’s leadership during the spring of 1940, Sir Anthony Eden’s Suez adventure, and David Cameron’s campaign to remain in the EU. I can also think of the backlash to Gordon Brown’s decision not to call a general election in the early autumn of 2007,” Allen said.
“But no new prime minister’s position has unravelled so early into their premiership or so catastrophically as Truss’s has over the last few weeks.”
The 47-year-old, who entered parliament in 2010, found herself in a first cabinet position in 2014 as secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs under former Prime Minister David Cameron.
She has since served under Theresa May and Johnson in various positions.
This was expected.
ReplyDeleteJeremy Hunt just hammered the last nail in her coffin