Strikes, ‘sleaze’, stability: Sunak marks 100 days as UK PM
On reaching 100 days in 10 Downing Street this week, Rishi Sunak will double the duration of Liz Truss’s brutally short term as British prime minister.
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Sunak speaks of pride at being UK’s first Hindu PM
Sunak won the race to replace Liz Truss as premier and leader of the Conservative Party on October 24, the same day Hindus marked Diwali, the festival of lights.
Shortest-serving PM in history leaves scars on economy
Liz Truss, the shortest serving prime minister in UK history, leaves lasting scars on the economy after her botched budget rocked markets, spiked borrowing costs and tanked the pound.
UK PM resigns, successor to be elected next week
British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced Thursday her resignation as Conservative Party leader after just six weeks in power and said her successor would be elected by the end of next week.
Resign or be pushed? The scenarios facing UK’s embattled Truss
Calls are growing for Britain’s beleaguered Prime Minister Liz Truss to resign or be replaced, after weeks of economic and political tumult over her now largely abandoned tax-slashing economic package.
UK’s embattled Truss told: ‘The game is up’
Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss on Sunday vied to reboot her economic programme, but Conservative critics warned the party faces electoral oblivion under her crippled leadership.
Whole country ‘will be deeply concerned’ by Queen’s illness: UK PM
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss tweeted Thursday that the whole country “will be deeply concerned” about the health of Queen Elizabeth II.
Liz Truss becomes new UK PM after audience with queen
Liz Truss on Tuesday officially became Britain’s new prime minister, at an audience with head of state Queen Elizabeth II after the resignation of Boris Johnson.
Liz Truss’s political ‘journey’ reaches Downing Street
The UK’s next prime minister, Liz Truss, takes power as a traditional, low-tax Conservative eurosceptic promising to turbo-charge economic growth.
Liz Truss: heir to Thatcher bidding to lead Britain out of crisis
As a seven-year-old in 1983, Liz Truss played the role of Britain’s former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in her school’s mock elections but failed to get a single vote.
