Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 44 days in office
Daily Politics from the New Statesman
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Liz Truss has announced she will stand down as prime minister after her government was plunged into chaos yesterday. The Home Secretary was forced to resign, the chief whip attempted to resign, and Tory MPs were allegedly manhandled and reduced to tears over a fracking vote which was (maybe?) a vote of confidence.
Rachel Cunliffe, Ben Walker and Rachel Wearmouth discuss Liz Truss’s resignation and then Freddie Hayward joins the podcast to take us through how the madness unfolded, minute by minute.
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| 0:00.0 | for the New Statesman. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Connallith. |
| 0:10.0 | The Prime Minister Liz Truss has just resigned. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm joined now by Rachel Wehrmuth |
| 0:14.0 | and Ben Walker to take you through what happened. |
| 0:16.0 | We'll have a full rundown later of |
| 0:18.0 | step-by-step how this unfolded |
| 0:20.0 | but for now, here's our immediate reaction. |
| 0:27.0 | So, Liz Truss has resigned as Prime Minister. |
| 0:29.0 | Later on today, we will take you through |
| 0:31.0 | step-by-step what happened |
| 0:33.0 | and how it happened. |
| 0:34.0 | But now, for an instant reaction, |
| 0:36.0 | Rachel, Ben, what is going on? |
| 0:39.0 | Well, everything just seemed to happen in very quick succession. |
| 0:41.0 | Crimbley, it mourned and onward extremely. |
| 0:43.0 | So, Grant Brady, the chairman of the 1922 committee, |
| 0:46.0 | was seen dashing into the back door of Downing Street |
| 0:49.0 | for what we now know kind of crisis talks with the PM. |
| 0:52.0 | After we saw Drittles, more MPs, |
| 0:54.0 | just saying they had no confidence, |
| 0:56.0 | going public, saying they had no confidence |
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