The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Despite their record brevity, Liz Truss's 44 days in office will long be remembered. The UK prime minister has now resigned after pressure that became too much. How did the Conservative Party elect a leader who so badly misread the mood and the markets with her failed bid for unfunded…

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Liz Truss became a quitter, not a fighter as she resigned as Tory leader, with her exit from No 10 due next week.

Truss, the shortest serving prime minister in British history, resigned following a controversial tax-cutting budget.

Despite the departure of her home secretary, the PM could probably have clung on, but then came the extraordinary unforced errors

Audiences had to laugh about the well-timed question

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Editorial: The prime minister departs humiliated after 45 days. Her reckless misjudgments showed she was never up to the job

Expect also a harder downturn if market credibility is to be restored, with a 2% contraction in GDP