{"id":673136,"date":"2022-10-20T15:10:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=673136"},"modified":"2022-10-20T15:11:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:11:48","slug":"liz-truss-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/liz-truss-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Truss Resigns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Liz Truss was elected Prime Minister 44 days ago, she had a rough start and that continued as more and more MPs were having issues. After a long think and 44 days as PM&#8230; Liz Truss has stepped down as PM and will go down as the shortest lived Prime Minister in the UK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liz Truss didn&#8217;t have the best start going into the PMs office, a lot of people saying she had no clue what she was doing and not being able to control anything.<\/p>\n<p>This means that she is now the shortest lived PM in the UK at only 44 days. The second shortest lived PM was former PM Sir Alex Douglas at 1 year and 1 day.<\/p>\n<p>The start of Truss&#8217; tenure was overshadowed due to the death of our Queen, and the period of mourning afterwards. Truss&#8217; low tax policies, which helped her win the Conservative Party leadership contest, spooked the market and precipitated a financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>This led to her sacking former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and abandon the policies that he announced.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing ended up going right for her which led to her stepping down as PM.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"jss1621 jss44 jss46 jss45\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/Alexandros_Michailidis\">Alexandros Michailidis<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Truss was elected Prime Minister 44 days ago, she had a rough start and that continued as more and more MPs were having issues. After a long think and 44 days as PM&#8230; Liz Truss has stepped down as PM and will go down as the shortest lived Prime Minister in the UK. Liz&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":673137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673138,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673136\/revisions\/673138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}