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Famously, she was the first British prime minister to be outlasted by a lettuce.More pertinently for the book industry, however, Liz Truss was also the first to unravel almost faster than a biographer can type. She quit eight days before the Sun’s political editor Harry Cole and Spectator diarist James Heale were due to deliver a portrait already being written at breakneck speed, and for a book to emerge at all in the circumstances arguably represents something of a heroic technical achievement. True, the writing is…

Back in what now seems like the distant past – August – a biography of Liz Truss looked to be a well-timed book for the Tory shires Christmas market. Two of the maddest months in recent history later and Out of the Blue by the Sun’s political editor, Harry Cole, and James Heale of the Spectator became a joke social media meme, with a fake image showing the cover at a hugely knocked down price doing the rounds.You have to feel for the biographers, whose rushed book originally had the subtitle: “The inside story of Liz…

The Daily Star’s live stream event began on October 14 following an article in the Economist that suggested Truss would only remain in office as long as the shelf-life of a head of lettuce.Screenshot: The Daily Star/GizmodoOne of the most beautiful parts of the internet is the way jokes can proliferate through several people’s brains, ultimately resulting in a several-layers-deep meme that an outsider will likely never completely grasp. In the wake of Liz Truss’ resignation from the role of United Kingdom Prime Minister…

Photo: Daniel Leal via AFP (Getty Images)All good things must come to an end, and so must some incredibly shitty things too, which is why UK Prime Minister Liz Truss announced today that she is resigning her position after just 45 days. Truss takes the mantle as the shortest premiership in British history, but like all good stupid things about the country, she also plays a very silly part in Doctor Who history.Truss’ month-and-a-half position as the head of the current Conservative government and as the party’s…

Liz Truss announced her resignation as Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street on October 20, 2022 in London, England.Image: Rob Pinney (Getty Images)What is going on in the House of Commons? After a mere 44 days in office, Liz Truss has left her post as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amidst an ongoing UK government crisis. Truss assumed office on September 6, 2022 following a general election in response to the resignation of Boris Johnson.“I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability,”…

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss leaves number 10 Downing Street on October 12, 2022 in London, England.Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images)Wikipedia editors have added a new landing page that asks readers to be more specific if they’re searching for the “2022 United Kingdom government crisis.” And it speaks to just how poorly things are going for recently installed conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss. Specifically, Wikipedia would like to know if you mean the crisis in July when high-ranking politicians in former Prime Minister…

Newly appointed UK Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt scraps tax cuts in a major policy overhaul as Liz Truss' governing Conservative party tanks in the opinion polls amid Britain's worsening cost-of-living crisis. Hunt says no government could control markets but stresses his action would give certainty over public…

LONDON—Having fired her chancellor of the exchequer days ago, U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss must now battle to save her own job after what many political analysts and members of her own party regard as the worst start to a British premiership in modern times.Ms. Truss’s popularity rating is the lowest of any British prime minister since the early 1990s, according to polls, after a turbulent few weeks that saw her plan to boost growth through the biggest tax cuts in a generation cause…

Jeremy Hunt is a government veteran who has served as former foreign secretary and health secretary, and ran unsuccessfully to lead the Conservative Party in 2019. Kwasi Kwarteng was dismissed in person by Truss after he rushed back early from international meetings in the US.…

LONDON—U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss fired Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng and reversed crucial parts of her government’s tax plan, a major setback for the new leader after her plan to jolt the economy into growth unraveled in spectacular fashion following a backlash from financial markets and her party.   Mr. Kwarteng, who just three weeks ago presented the U.K.’s largest tax cuts since the 1970s, was asked to quit by Ms. Truss as markets balked at the scale of…