Update: U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation just 44 days after taking office, after a risky plan to cut taxes and boost spending caused turmoil on financial markets, forcing her to backtrack and her political authority to disintegrate.
She said the Conservative Party aims to choose her successor within a week, and that she will stay on as premier until then.
She is now the shortest tenured post-war PM…
<img alt=”Infographic: Post-War UK PMs with the Shortest Tenures