Truss resigned as U.K. prime minister after 44 days in office. How she got so unpopular, and what's next.
LONDON — After 44 days as prime minister, the majority of which was spent clinging on for her political life, Liz Truss announced Thursday that she is resigning. Now she is set to become the shortest-serving occupant of Downing Street in 300 years of British history.
to radically reorient the government’s economic agenda by slashing taxes without saying how the decision would be paid for. It sent the markets reeling, and Truss never recovered. By the end, Truss had grown so unpopular that her fellow party lawmakers were publicly contemplating plans to replace her.
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