Posted on 10/20/2022 4:21:45 AM PDT by FarCenter
London (AFP) – Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday faced more calls from her own party to step down after a key minister quit and lawmakers rebelled during "a day of extraordinary mayhem".
Truss is being urged to resign just six weeks into office after a forced U-turn on disastrous tax cuts that caused a market meltdown during an already severe cost-of-living crisis.
Right-wing broadsheet The Times reported the prime minister was "clinging to power", and cited a Truss supporter in her cabinet as saying: "It's terminal."
Its tabloid sister paper The Sun ran the front page headline "Broken", saying Truss's "authority is in tatters after a day of extraordinary mayhem".
Conservative peer Ed Vaizey said the "only way out of this mess is for Liz Truss to stand down and for somebody to be appointed as prime minister by Conservative MPs."
The party could avoid a lengthy leadership contest by consolidating around a single replacement, but Truss has shown no sign of being willing to resign.
If she resigned this would lead to a Tory leadership contest that could be shortened if Tory MPs could agree on a single replacement. Otherwise the MPs could unite to trigger a no-confidence vote.
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Isn’t this the person who not long ago proudly proclaimed that her cabinet did not have any white men in it?
I think you are correct; I wonder if she will set some type of record for the shortest tenure ever as Prime Minister of the UK ??
Almost as crazy as the Heath/Wilson days in the winter of 1970/71.
Congrats to Lettuce, Lettuce edged out Truss.
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