In a shocking turn of events, the newly elected United Kingdom Prime Minister, Liz Truss has tendered in her resignation as the United Kingdom prime minister in a controversial statement which she had made outside Downing Street.
She had given her reasons as being that she would not be able to deliver the mandate with which she was elected and had notified the King that she was resigning as the Tory leader.
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She also revealed that there will be a Conservative leadership election which would be completed within the next week.
It would also be coming after she had met the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs as more Tories had called for her to quit.
Truss’s premiership came under renewed pressure after the home secretary had resigned and a chaotic vote on fracking and there was fury on Wednesday evening around the vote and the methods used to get MPs to vote with the government.
In a prevous report, Liz Truss had been fighting to hold on to her job after her interior minister announced his resignation and Conservative legislators openly quarrelled in parliament over a vote on a fracking for shale gas.
Africa Today News, New York reports that yesterday’s departure of Suella Braverman over what has been described as a ‘technical’ breach of government rules indicates Truss has now lost two of her most senior ministers in less than a wee even as both individuals have now been replaced by politicians who had not backed her for the leadership.
Braverman said she resigned after breaching rules by sending an official document from her personal email account. She used her resignation letter to lambast Truss, saying she had “concerns about the direction of this government”.
“The business of government relies upon people accepting responsibility for their mistakes,” she said. “Pretending we haven’t made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can’t see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics.”
Braverman is a popular figure on the Conservative Party’s right wing and a champion of more restrictive immigration policies who ran unsuccessfully for party leader, a contest won by Truss in early September.