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WESTMINSTER, London (LifeSiteNews) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation after only 44 days in office as Boris Johnson’s successor.
In a statement delivered outside Number 10 Downing Street, Truss declared, “I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.”
The Conservative PM added that “there will be a leadership election to be completed within the next week” to decide her successor. She will remain as acting Prime Minister until a successor is announced, which will be by October 28.
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Truss was chosen by Conservative party members as the successor to former PM Boris Johnson, who resigned in July amid increasing controversy regarding his personal violation of his government’s own COVID lockdown restrictions and the resignation of several of his ministers and officials.
Truss’s decline has been much more swift than Johnson’s, with political commentators suggesting it was “inevitable” since she sacked her Chancellor of the Exchequer – Kwasi Kwarteng – after
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