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On October 20, 2022, Liz Truss held a media conference in Downing Street, London, following her resignation as the leader of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom.
Less than two years after taking office, Liz Truss, the former prime minister of Britain, was removed from parliament and experienced another historic humiliation.
Truss’s six-week tenure as prime minister was by far the shortest in British history. Following the devaluation of the pound due to a chaotic financial strategy that alarmed investors and markets, her government came to an end.
After losing, she stayed silent and walked off the platform with her other contenders, trying to keep a tough expression on her face.
Truss was defeated by 630 votes. Labor received 11,847 votes, while she received 11,217.
One of the most astonishing events in the lengthy history of British elections is her defeat. It surpasses the historic occasion in 1997 when Defense Secretary Michael Portillo lost his seat; almost few, even in the worst predictions for the Conservatives, thought Truss could lose her once incredibly safe Tory seat.
Even though Rishi Sunak tried to separate the Conservatives from Truss’s administration, she continued to represent the party in the seat that she has held since 2010.
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She now represents the Conservative Party’s downfall on an unparalleled evening when voters decisively rejected the incumbent party.
Her loss, which was declared just before 7:00 am (0600 GMT), concluded an astonishing show for Keir Starmer’s Labour opposition, which defeated Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party by a wide margin to retake power after a 14-year absence.
But later, she told CNN: “I think the issue we faced as Conservatives is we haven’t delivered sufficiently on the policies people want.”
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