London, Europe Brief News – Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned as UK prime minister in a statement outside Downing Street.
She said she could not deliver the mandate on which she was elected as Tory leader and had notified the King that she was resigning.
There will be Conservative leadership election to be completed within the next week, she said.
“I will remain as Prime Minister until choosing a successor,” she said.
It comes after meeting chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs as more Tories called for her to quit.
Liz Truss’ premiership came under renewed pressure after the home secretary resigned and a chaotic vote on fracking.
There was fury around the vote and the methods used to get MPs to vote with the government.
Truss, who became prime minister on September 6, initially installed a cabinet of senior ministers who were loyal to her libertarian wing of the Conservative Party.
But the launch of a now largely scrapped economic programme forced her to fire her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and appoint Jeremy Hunt as his replacement.
Hunt had backed Truss’s rival for leadership, Rishi Sunak.
Earlier Wednesday, British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has announced her resignation. She apologised for sending an official document from her personal email account in what she called a “technical infringement”.
