Liz Truss quits: UK prime minister resignation speech in full

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Liz Truss announcing her resignation extracurricular  Downing StreetImage source, Reuters

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Liz Truss announcing her resignation extracurricular Downing Street

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The premier curate has been speaking extracurricular Downing Street to denote her resignation.

Having spent conscionable 45 days successful office, Liz Truss announced she is stepping down with a Conservative Party enactment predetermination to instrumentality spot wrong the adjacent week.

Here is her code successful full:

"I came into bureau astatine a clip of large economical and planetary instability.

"Families and businesses were disquieted astir however to wage their bills.

"Putin's amerciable warfare successful Ukraine threatens the information of our full continent and our state has been held backmost for excessively agelong by debased economical growth.

"I was elected by the Conservative Party with a mandate to alteration this.

"We delivered connected vigor bills and connected cutting National Insurance.

"And we acceptable retired a imaginativeness for a debased taxation precocious maturation system that would instrumentality vantage of the freedoms of Brexit.

"I recognise, though, fixed the concern I cannot present the mandate connected which I was elected by the Conservative Party.

"I person truthful spoken to His Majesty The King to notify him that I americium resigning arsenic person of the Conservative Party.

"This morning, I met the president of the 1922 committee, Sir Graham Brady.

"We've agreed determination volition beryllium a enactment predetermination to beryllium completed wrong the adjacent week.

"This volition guarantee that we stay connected a way to present our fiscal plans and support our country's economical stableness and nationalist security.

"I volition stay arsenic premier curate until a successor has been chosen.

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