How the Tories Brought Endless Anarchy to the UK
They don’t know what they want, or how to get it. Britain will suffer in austerity and limbo waiting two years for a general election.
Truss’s end was the fastest in history. How deep is the bench?
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I never expected a knowledge of the United Kingdom to be quite so useful for this job. Liz Truss has resigned as leader of the Conservative Party and will be replaced as prime minister possibly as early as next Monday, and no later than Friday, depending on how many leadership aspirants can win nomination for their candidacy to move forward. It has been by some margin the shortest prime ministership in British history, as pointed out in this handy chart produced for the terminal: