British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation on Thursday, just six weeks after assuming office.
Truss resigned after her tax cuts platform disintegrated and most of her party denied paying for them, namely his fellow Tories.
In her address, Truss said that she would stay on as Prime Minister until a successor is chosen to serve as Tory leader.
“We’ve agreed that there will be a leadership election to be completed within the next week,” she said, after senior backbench MP Graham Brady told her the game was up.
“This will ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plan and maintain our country’s economic stability and national security.
“I will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen.”
Truss was UK’s third female PM after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.
Keir Starmer, a labour leader who has surged in popularity due to Truss’s short and crisis-plagued tenure, demanded a general election “now.”
Truss’ announcement came shortly after a key minister resigned, and many MPs rebelled. In general, Wednesday’s events were chaotic at Parliament.
Conservative MPs insisted that Truss resign after her tax-cutting plans caused a market panic. The MPs called for Truss to step down after their own party’s economic policies caused an already-serious inflation crisis to worsen.
Reports have stated that many have submitted letters to Brady calling for her to be removed, although another leadership campaign would be forbidden for 12 months.
“The Prime Minister wants to talk about the big issues that are relevant to the public, like jobs and their family’s safety,” her official spokesman told reporters.
She quit barely two hours later.
After Wednesday, it seemed like events came to ahead when a right-wing tabloid called it “a day of extraordinary mayhem.”
Interior minister Suella Braverman has left, apparently at Truss’s demand after she sent a government document in an email from her personal account.
But Braverman, a strongly-supported right-winger who used her resignation message to attack Truss in blistering terms, enjoyed strong support among the Tory membership.
