The October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election was triggered by Liz Truss's announcement that she would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, am
Rishi Sunak Official Cabinet Portrait, September 2021
Truss giving her first speech as prime minister on 6 September.
The September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget
Truss announces her pending resignation outside 10 Downing Street on 20 October 2022; she left office on 25 October.
Liz Truss
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Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day in office, she steppe
October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
…The October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election was triggered by Liz Truss's announcement that she would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, amid an economic and political crisis…
Official portrait, 2022
Merton College, Oxford, where Truss studied (pictured in 2023)
David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016
Official portrait, 2014