- Liz Truss has announced her resignation after a chaotic 44 days in office during which she lost the confidence of Tory MPs and the public and oversaw economic turbulence.
- She is set to become the shortest serving Prime Minister in history after she battled an open revolt from Conservatives demanding her departure.
- Speaking from a lectern in Downing Street, Ms Truss said she had told the King she was resigning as the leader of the Conservative Party.
- There will now be a leadership election to be completed within the next week she said, after speaking to the leader of the 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady, in No 10.
- It comes just a little over 24 hours after she told MPs she was a “fighter, not a quitter”.
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