This is the end. In office since September 6, Prime Minister Liz Truss lasted only a month and a half at 10 Downing Street. Criticized from all sides for causing a financial storm in the markets and increasingly isolated, including in her own camp, the leader of the Conservative Party announced her resignation during a speech on Thursday.
Asked by 20 minutes, Agnès Alexandre-Collier, professor of British civilization and politics at the University of Burgundy, considered her position “quite untenable”, believing that Liz Truss found herself “between the humiliation of having to give up everything and the fact of cling to a position for which she no longer has any relevance”, since “the government is conducting a policy that is the opposite of what she has advocated”. Truss said an election for the new leader of the Conservative Party would be held “by next week”.