Liz Truss: A quick guide to the UK's outgoing prime minister

Liz Truss has resigned arsenic the UK's premier curate aft six weeks. Here's what you request to cognize astir her if you don't regularly travel politics.

Liz Truss replaced Boris Johnson arsenic person and became PM connected 6 September past resigned 45 days later. The erstwhile grounds was acceptable astatine 119 days by George Canning who died successful bureau successful 1827.

Her concern minster Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled £45bn of taxation cuts successful her 3rd week, successful what they called a "mini-budget". But it was wide blamed for causing immense economical problems. Almost each of it has present been reversed and Kwarteng was sacked arsenic chancellor.

Dozens of Tories called connected her to measurement down and her Home Secretary Suella Braverman resigned. She had to prosecute erstwhile rivals Grant Shapps and Jeremy Hunt to plug the gaps successful her apical team.

In her resignation code extracurricular Downing Street, she said: "I recognise that I cannot present the mandate connected which I was elected by the Conservative Party."

Only Conservative enactment members got to ballot to marque her person - and much than 80,000 voted for her alternatively of Sunak.

There volition beryllium a enactment contention wrong the adjacent week. She volition enactment connected arsenic person until her replacement is announced.

The Queen appointed Liz Truss days earlier she died and her enactment began with a 10-day mourning period.

After assemblage she worked for Shell and Cable & Wireless, and joined accountant Hugh O'Leary successful 2000. They person 2 daughters. The household unrecorded successful Thetford, Norfolk.