Liz Truss resigns as prime minister
She made the announcement outside Downing Street six weeks after she addressed the nation as the newly-elected prime minister.
She made the announcement outside Downing Street six weeks after she addressed the nation as the newly-elected prime minister.
"I hope it was worth it for the ministerial red box, I hope it was worth it to sit round the Cabinet table because the damage they have done to our party is extraordinary.”
"I am prepared to face the consequences of my decision", he said.
Truss has been warned that breaking the triple lock promise would be “devastating for the millions who rely on the state pension”.
It comes after the newly-elected chancellor Jeremy Hunt dramatically U-turned on Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-Budget.
“I will stay in the job to deliver for the national interest", the prime minister told the BBC, struggling to keep a straight face.
‘The great office of Prime Minister was yesterday reduced to an unedifying game of ghost-hunting,’ The Sun writes in an editorial.
The prime minister admitted things have not been ‘perfect’.
The Tory MP described the PM’s move as a ‘gut punch’ that cast him into a bout of depression.
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