Liz Truss vs. Lettuce: Twitter Has All the Jokes After UK Prime Minister Resigns

After less than two months in office, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation on Thursday under pressure after economic plans were reversed, creating economic turmoil.

A day after adamantly proclaiming that she is a warrior and not a quitter, Liz Truss made the declaration, but ultimately stated that the situation had changed.

Uk Prime Minister Liz Truss Quits After 44 Days

Following the resignation of Home Secretary Suella Braverman in a letter that criticized the prime minister, Truss announced that a leadership election will be held within the next week and that she will serve as prime minister until a replacement has been picked.

Braverman, a Conservative Party's right-wing member, stood for party leader earlier this year but lost to Truss. Days before Braverman's departure, Truss let go of Treasury Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng amid economic upheaval that saw the British pound fall in value to be virtually equivalent to the US dollar.

The issues arose after a tax cut proposal was promoted by the Truss government in September and abandoned by Kwarteng's successor Jeremy Hunt in October.

On Wednesday, Truss apologized to parliamentarians and acknowledged that she had made mistakes during her brief tenure in office-six weeks. However, she claimed that abandoning the tax cut plan was the appropriate option for the sake of the country's economic stability.

"Liz Truss must resign," many members of the Conservative Party said. Simon Hoare, a conservative politician, told the BBC on Thursday that Truss has approximately 12 hours to resolve the issue. Other members of the Conservative Party didn't even seem prepared to hold out for that long, as per Fox News.

The brief tenure of Liz Truss as president is the shortest in contemporary political history. The turmoil has left the British people in shock and anger, and many are now wondering who will be the country's next leader.

Whoever assumes power in less than two months will be the country's second non-elected prime minister. On Thursday, Liz Truss guaranteed that the procedure would be finished in a week. The United States and the United Kingdom are staunch allies and enduring friends - and that reality will never alter, according to President Joe Biden, who previously met Truss in that capacity, Daily Mail reported.

Liz Truss vs. Lettuce

A head of wet lettuce was the live streamed spectacle that was being observed across the globe at the time. Finally, the lettuce prevailed over Liz Truss. The shortest-serving British prime minister will leave office on Thursday, as 10 Downing Street turns a new page.

The Daily Star, a British tabloid, created the vegetable stunt after seeing Truss' favorability ratings decline and creating the radicchio-lous "lettuce" competition to match. On October 14, when support for Truss waned, the outlet put some googly eyes on a head of lettuce, placed it next to a framed picture of the prime minister, and started shooting.

The joke's companion YouTube channel swiftly racked up 40,000 likes. The produce's handlers arranged the lettuce in progressively complex setups over the days before deciding on a blond wig for the vegetable.

Opposition leaders used the ploy to draw attention to Truss' shortcomings, which helped the stream gain political traction on its own. The Daily Star lowered a crown over the seven-day-old lettuce after Truss announced her retirement in a succinct speech on Thursday, and when the national anthem played, it turned the Truss photo face-down.

Soon after, there were disco lights, party music, and empty liquor bottles as the chyron read, This lettuce outlasted Liz Truss. The Economist's early October essay, in which the authors declared Truss' political influence gone regardless of how long she might maintain the position, is said to have served as inspiration for the antics, according to HuffPost via MSN.