Forced into a series of reversals on her campaign promises, she had in particular had to change finance minister after the budget presented at the end of September triggered a panic on the financial markets. A new Prime Minister should be appointed by October 28, according to the Conservative Party.
” Given the situation, I cannot fulfill the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party said Liz Truss outside 10 Downing Street. She specified that a new internal ballot would take place within the majority “ by next week to replace it.
Britain’s opposition leader, Labor Keir Starmer, has called for general elections to be held as soon as “ now “.
The pressure was growing on Liz Truss. The British Prime Minister, in office for 6 weeks, and who lived a day on Wednesday to say the least ” hard » with the resignation of the Minister of the Interior and an evening under high tension in Parliament.
The Prime Minister’s spokesperson initially assured that she had no intention of giving up. But at the end of the morning, she met the deputy at the head of the powerful 1922 Committee in charge of the internal organization of the conservative party. A meeting that seems to have changed the scenario planned by the Prime Minister. The Conservative Party therefore restarts an internal election to find a new leader, the fifth in six years. ” It will be possible to conduct a poll and conclude an election by Friday, October 28 Conservative Party member Graham Brady told reporters.
Liz Truss becomes the shortest-serving Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street with just 44 days in office since she succeeded Boris Johnson on September 6, 2022.
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