It's Friday, October the 21st, 2022, and welcome to the Daily Article podcast.

Today's article is written by Dr. Ryan Dennison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum.

The lettuce outlasts Liz Truss.

More than 20,000 people watched live when that announcement rang out as Cool and the Gangs celebration began to roar in the background.

When British tabloid, the Daily Star, first launched the contest last Friday to see if a head of lettuce dressed up like the now former Prime Minister, Liz Truss, could outlast the British leader.

The outlook was already bleak for Truss's time as her country's prime minister.

Truss had run and been chosen, in large part because of her economic plan to stimulate the economy

and help Britain move forward into the post-Brexit future

that conservatives had long envisioned. However, many economists had warned from the start

that her ideas could spell disaster for the nation. Apparently, announcing roughly 45 billion

pounds, that's 48 billion dollars, in unfunded tax cuts, at a time when inflation

is already a problem, borrowing has grown ever more expensive and a global recession seems

imminent did not set well with the markets. As soon as the plan was formally announced, the pound plummeted in value and the Bank of

England was forced to step in to keep pension funds from collapsing.

Her chancellor and co-author of the plan, Quasi Quartung, took the fall initially, resigning

on October 14th.

However, most understood that he was merely following her

policies to the letter. When Quartung's replacement, Jeremy Hunt, settled the markets by

essentially undoing everything Truss had announced, the handwriting was on the wall. As a result,

she too was forced out less than a week later. In total, Liz Truss held office for less than six weeks, by far the shortest term in her country's history.

George Canning, who died of pneumonia after five months in office back in 1827, previously held that record.

In what is perhaps the most damning indictment of her time as

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