Truss said a vote to replace her will be held “by next week.” She held the position for 45 days. At a press conference, Truss said she accepted the challenge at a time of “great economic and international instability” and announced her resignation from the position.
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Earlier, the prime minister acknowledged that her government had a “difficult day” on Wednesday, but called for a focus on priorities, according to her spokesperson.
“The Prime Minister recognizes that yesterday was a difficult day,” said her spokesman, after the chief executive faced jokes from the opposition, rebellion among conservative deputies and the resignation of her interior minister.
Surrogate
The new British Prime Minister will be appointed by Friday, October 28, by the ruling Conservative Party, MP Graham Brady announced, following the resignation of Liz Truss.
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“It will be possible (…) to complete an election by Friday, October 28th,” Brady told reporters. It's a deadline curto in relation to what led to Truss' confirmation in the role, after Boris Johnson's departure. The 170 members of the ruling party took two months to announce their choice.
Amid the economic cost of living crisis, with millions of Britons suffering from inflation, the Conservative Party now finds itself grappling with an internal election to find a new leader – the fifth in six years.
For days now, several names have been circulating for Liz Truss's succession, such as Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt – the minister responsible for relations with Parliament – or, even, her predecessor Boris Johnson.
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Rejection
Rejected by public opinion and questioned within her own party, the 47-year-old Conservative leader was on the ropes just six weeks after taking office.
His popularity plummeted in part due to the abandonment of his package of economic measures, which included massive tax cuts and major support for paying energy bills, two issues that raised fears of a collapse in public accounts.
Furthermore, since Wednesday, more than a dozen conservative deputies have called on her to resign. The last few hours have been true “chaos”, according to the British press.
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Truss suffered a major setback with the resignation of her Home Secretary, Suella Bravermam, after a turbulent session of Parliament.
The Home Secretary claimed as the reason for her dismissal that she used her personal email account to send an official document to a colleague, but the British media mainly point to the differences between the two women regarding immigration policy. .
Braverman's resignation came just days after the resignation of then Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng on October 14.
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Succession of the British Prime Minister will have a maximum of three candidates
A maximum of three conservative deputies will be able to officially apply to succeed Liz Truss as British Prime Minister, in a dispute to be decided by the deputies and, possibly, by party members, according to the rules presented this Thursday (20) by the Conservative Party.
“Candidates will need to have at least 100 colleagues (out of 357 Conservative MPs) to sponsor them,” 1922 Committee Chairman Graham Brady told the press, adding that these “sponsorships” must be collected by Monday, 14pm local time. (10 am in Brasília), for selection until the following Friday.
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