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A Brief Timeline of Prime Minister Liz Truss
The good news is that Liz Truss (the UK’s Conservative Prime Minister) is gone gone gone!
The bad news is that she managed to nuke the economy in less than 2 whole months. And we’ve ended up with our 3rd prime minister (Rishi Sunak) in the space of 3 months.
OK, so the government imploded.
That’s the definitiveness of it all — it collapsed and hard, leading to Liz Truss resigning on Thursday and becoming the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, taking that particular title away from a dude who died in office in 1827.
Disclaimer Time: this is written for the purpose of humour and entertainment. It’s also opinion, based on the information available to me at time of writing. Don’t sue me, I promise it’s not worth it.
Let’s take a look at the key timeline here.
(My main source for the dates is this article from The Guardian — other sources will be linked as I go along.)
⚠️ September 5th — Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister, with a majority of just over 20,000 people over…