Tory Leadership Race Begins After Liz Truss Resigns

Tory Leadership Race Begins After Liz Truss Resigns
Liz Truss speaks in Downing Street, as she resigns as prime minister of the United Kingdom, in London on Oct. 20, 2022. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Following UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s shock resignation on Thursday after just six weeks in office, the race is now on to find her successor, and it could happen by as early as next week.

Truss, 47, announced she was stepping down in a lengthy speech outside the prime minister’s official residence at Number 10 Downing Street in which she acknowledged, “Given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.”

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