Liz Truss announces her resignation from her role as the United Kingdom’s prime minister.
JANE BARLOW/POOL/AFP via Getty Imagessaid on Thursday that she would resign after a rising chorus of members of her own party called for her to step down. Support for the premiere collapsed spectacularly not even two months into her tenure, with a final straw seeming to be a parliamentary vote Wednesday evening that descended into total chaos, with members of her Conservative party shouting and swearing at each other, and some even claiming they had been physically manhandled.
On Thursday, Truss said she would remain as prime minister until the members of her party choose a new leader. She promised a party leadership election within a week,"to ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our country's economic stability and national security." Senior Conservative MP Charles Walker expressed his outrage to a BBC News crew that was covering the events live as they unfolded inside the House of Commons on Wednesday night.
Earlier on Wednesday, in a major blow to Truss even before the chaotic scenes unfolded in parliament, her Home Secretary Suella Braverman, the cabinet minister in charge of immigration and law enforcement, resigned. She stepped down after it emerged that she had sent an official document via her personal email account, in breach of government rules. She apologized for the infraction in her resignation letter, but also lashed out at Truss.
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