'Dear oh dear': Six moments from six chaotic weeks

Liz Truss has resigned arsenic the UK's premier curate aft little than 2 months successful office. Her six weeks successful powerfulness person been afloat of daze announcements and awkward moments.

If you haven't been pursuing each past twist and turn, here's six memorable moments from her abbreviated clip successful Downing Street.

Though she volition spell down successful past arsenic the UK's shortest-serving premier minister, Ms Truss was pictured successful the past nationalist photograph of the country's longest-serving monarch.

Two days earlier she died, the Queen officially invited Ms Truss, her 15th premier minister, to signifier a government.

The photograph of the brace shaking hands successful Balmoral Castle sparked concerns astir the Queen's health, due to the fact that of her frail quality and what looked to beryllium bruising connected her close hand.

Ms Truss described feeling "hugely honoured" to person met the Queen "in 1 of her past acts".

Ms Truss campaigned connected a program to chopped taxes and a mates of weeks into her word arsenic premier minister, her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, unveiled a programme of taxation cuts worthy £45bn ($51bn).

But Mr Kwarteng didn't explicate however the cuts would beryllium paid for. The mini-budget was announced connected Friday - but erstwhile markets reopened connected the pursuing Monday morning, the lb fell to grounds lows against the dollar.

The present not-so mini-budget sparked marketplace turmoil, with the Bank of England having to measurement tens of billions of pounds to stabilise pension funds, and owe rates changeable up.

It would beryllium the archetypal of a bid of economical U-turns, prompting economical commentators to accidental that "Trussonomics" was dead.

With the authorities troubled by marketplace absorption and speculation of a large U-turn, Mr Kwarteng was called backmost from an planetary gathering successful Washington DC a time early, and helium was sacked.

Hours aft the firing, Ms Truss gave a little property league during which she was grilled repeatedly astir her credibility arsenic premier minister. "How travel you get to stay?", asked 1 journalist.

Though she answered lone 4 questions, she stumbled implicit her answers, insisting that she had acted to calm "economic turmoil".

Her awkward eight-minute show didn't person Members of Parliament successful her ain enactment that she could enactment connected arsenic leader.

Video footage from wrong the play audiences betwixt the British monarch and their premier curate is rare.

But erstwhile images were released of King Charles III gathering Ms Truss for the archetypal clip successful Buckingham Palace, they did small to reconstruct her nationalist image.

When the premier curate told the King that gathering him was a "great pleasure", the caller monarch greeted the Conservative Party person by muttering: "Dear ohio dear."

Though the saying is rumoured to beryllium thing of a verbal tick of the King's, the 15-second awkward speech rapidly went viral.

The time earlier handing successful her ain resignation letter, Ms Truss was connected the receiving extremity of 1 - from her location secretary, Suella Braverman. Ms Braverman discontinue implicit 2 information breaches. And she didn't spell quietly.

In her resignation letter, she said she had made a "technical infringement" by sending an authoritative papers from a idiosyncratic email, and that she was present taking responsibility.

"Pretending we haven't made mistakes, carrying connected arsenic if everyone can't spot that we person made them, and hoping that things volition magically travel close is not superior polities," she wrote. "I person made a mistake; I judge responsibility; I resign."

It was seen arsenic a thinly veiled excavation astatine Ms Truss. But determination was thing veiled successful her appraisal of the government's migration policy, adding that she had "serious concerns astir this government's committedness to honouring manifesto commitments".

When a governmental commentator joked that Ms Truss had "roughly the shelf-life of a lettuce", British paper the Daily Star responded by investigating the mentation connected a unrecorded web-cam feed.

Thousands tuned successful to ticker "lettuce-cam", oregon a 60p Tesco lettuce successful a blond wig adjacent to a framed photograph of premier minister. As the rootlike dilatory wilted earlier their eyes, truthful did Ms Truss's grip connected power.

And erstwhile the PM announced her resignation, astir 20,000 radical tuned successful to congratulate the lettuce connected outlasting her. The nationalist anthem was played, on with a remix of Kool and the Gang's "Celebration".

"Lettuce rejoice", wrote 1 viewer.