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Today, Explained

Truss fall

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Liz Truss accomplished at least one thing in her 45 days as prime minister: She set a record for the shortest term in office. The Atlantic’s Tom McTague explains her disastrous tenure. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Correction, October 21: An earlier version of the episode misattributed a quote to British politician Penny Mordaunt. The error has been corrected. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability.

0:07.0

Liz Truss did.

0:09.0

Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills.

0:13.0

They all were, but the UK Prime Minister then made her own contribution to the instability

0:18.6

by jimmying with the country's economy, instituting tax cuts for the richest people with

0:23.2

Naria plan to pay for them.

0:25.0

For 45 days in office, we're so tumultuous that people began to predict the end at the

0:30.6

beginning.

0:31.6

A British tabloid, the daily star purchased a head of lettuce, set up a live video of the

0:36.5

lettuce and asked, will Liz Truss outlast this lettuce?

0:41.9

This lettuce outlasted Liz Truss, the live feed now says.

0:46.0

Coming up on today, explained,

0:47.5

I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party.

1:01.5

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