‘… I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party. I have therefore spoken to His Majesty the King to notify him that I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party!’ were the brief but final words of a Resigning British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, in front of her official 10 Downing Street Office, 44 days after her first!

Before her were Conservative Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, each one’s period of survival seemingly shorter than the last.
So what ignited the speedy end of Lizz Truss’ short, rocky reign, who campaigned on a platform to deliver “growth,” but achieved the complete opposite.

Rather than meeting the expectations of many Brits over concerns on rising inflation and skyrocketing energy bills, ‘Truss’s government simply gave them more to worry about, including rising mortgage rates and an economy in peril,’ wrote Yasmeen Sehran for a Times editorial.

Her incredible £45 billion ($50.6 billion) in unfunded tax cuts, ‘which disproportionately favored the country’s wealthiest, succeeded only in crashing the pound, spooking the markets, and undermining Britain’s credibility around the world,’ she added.

Before her predictable but yet sudden exit, Truss, who had assumed Britain’s priority was economic growth, came tumbling after final admission that she had erred by going “too far and too fast” with her economic reforms.

Britain, grappling with the cost of living crisis, the economy, climate change issues, the NHS, Immigration, with six years of instability after Brexit, a pounding COVID-19 pandemic, and a Russia Invasion of the Ukraine, just needed a government that would build certainty confidence in their lives. It remains to be seen if the next Prime Minister will achieve this elusive British expectation.

The Conservative Party MPs intend to find a suitable and unifying PM candidate within it’s ranks in order to spare the British public from a month long general election tiring process like happened before, while holding the Party together after a factitious six long and winding Lizz Truss weeks as PM!

Bronwen Maddox, CEO, Chatham House

‘The Conservative party is right to restrict this leadership election to MPs. If the party cannot produce a candidate capable of uniting the party then the road will point next to a general election’ – Bronwen Maddox, Director, Chatham House said.

Immediate former Prime Minister Boris Johnson expected to make a comeback

Tipped to replace Truss as the next Prime Minister include her former leadership rival Rishi Sunak, current cabinet ministers Penny Mourdant and Ben Wallace, while other more conservative party members are rooting for immediate past prime minister Boris Johnson and Theresa May, if only for their political experience.