{"id":1703251,"date":"2022-10-20T09:18:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703251"},"modified":"2022-10-20T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T14:25:55","slug":"the-lettuce-won-truss-steps-down-as-british-pm-ending-stormy-44-day-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lettuce-won-truss-steps-down-as-british-pm-ending-stormy-44-day-run\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lettuce Won: Truss Steps Down As British PM, Ending Stormy, 44-Day Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-lettuce-won-truss-steps-down-as-british-pm-ending-stormy-44-day-run%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703251&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/british-prime-minister-liz-truss-unveils-package-to-cut-soaring-fuel-prices-offers-reforms-so-we-are-never-in-this-position-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liz Truss<\/a>, resigned Thursday as British prime minister, ending a stormy, 44-day tenure a fulfilling the predictions of critics who doubted the conservative politician\u2019s leadership from the start.<\/p>\n<p>Truss, who succeeded Boris Johnson on Sept. 6 after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party leadership contest, acknowledged that she was not up to the challenges she faced. The UK is suffering runaway inflation and staring down a winter with soaring fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came into office at a time of great economic and international instability,\u201d Truss said in a statement read outside Downing Street. \u201cFamilies and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While she claimed to have made inroads on the energy crisis, she acknowledged she \u201ccannot deliver the mandate\u201d for which she was elected.<\/p>\n<p>Truss\u2019s brief time in office was dominated by economic chaos and an aborted tax cut proposal. Some Tory MPs had publicly called for her to step down, while others voiced their agreement privately. The Fleet Street tabloid The Daily Star kept tabs on a head of lettuce, asking readers which would \u201cwilt\u201d first, it or Truss.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Liz Truss to resign as prime minister, Sky News understands <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qSULBHB0Xw\">https:\/\/t.co\/qSULBHB0Xw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1583073379568865280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new election is expected next week to choose a leader of the ruling Conservative Party. There were early reports that Johnson could return to the role he held from July, 2019 until last month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2022\/10\/20\/liz-truss-news-resign-pm-conservative-party-general-election\/\">The Telegraph<\/a>, citing an unnamed Tory member of parliament said lawmakers were talking openly of a \u201cspectacular return\u201d for Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Truss, resigned Thursday as British prime minister, ending a stormy, 44-day tenure a fulfilling the predictions of critics who doubted the conservative politician\u2019s leadership from the start. Truss, who succeeded Boris Johnson on Sept. 6 after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party leadership contest, acknowledged that she was not up to the challenges &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"The Lettuce Won: Truss Steps Down As British PM, Ending Stormy, 44-Day Run","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"The Lettuce Won: Truss Steps Down As British PM, Ending Stormy, 44-Day Run","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}