Tras, the lettuce and Boris

of Athena Papakosta

The third female prime minister of the United Kingdom began her term with Queen Elizabeth II giving her the mandate to form a government and ended it “competing” a… lettuce.

The UK’s shortest-lived prime minister has come to an end. Liz Truss may have claimed to be an “unrelenting fighter” but she has finally laid down her arms in the face of political civil war in the Tories and political earthquake across the country.

Seven weeks have already passed since September 6. It was Tuesday and Liz Truss was traveling to Balmoral to receive a government order from Queen Elizabeth II. Yesterday, Thursday, he walked out of Number 10 Downing Street and announced that he cannot carry out the mandate for which he was elected to the leadership of the Conservative Party.

45 days. That’s how long her term lasted and the 47-year-old Tras is now the shortest-lived prime minister of the United Kingdom. Until yesterday, the record was held by George Canning who stayed in power for 119 days and that because he died. Today, the whole country is talking about the political death of Tras.

In her short-lived tenure she had ups and downs. He made analysts pull their hair out, the political world of the country talking (double) and according to The Economist he transformed Britain into Italy (Britaly). Her prime minister hourglass has run out and she leaves behind a country that is looking for its third prime minister in just one year.

Liz’s plan didn’t go according to plan. She started strongly but was unreadable. Before she began her move from the Foreign Office to Downing Street, her predecessor Boris Johnson became the country’s 3rd prime minister who in six years had to pack up and close the door at number 10 behind him. politically crippled and the evil was already done. What else could go so wrong?

The challenges in front of the mountain, both nationally and internationally. She first tackles the country’s economy. Its goal is development and specifically its restart. Of course, in order to achieve this goal, Tras decided through the now infamous “mini budget” to reduce taxes while inflation was galloping.

The markets reacted nervously, sterling sank and the Bank of England began buying government bonds en masse. To the Tories, Liz Truss looked like a losing gambler who kept playing while the pundits were just pulling their hair out. It took the reaction of the International Monetary Fund to admit that her neo-Thatcherian experiment is not working. He sacked Kwasi Kwarteng and appointed Jeremy Hunt in his place.

The latter unraveled her economic vision but for her government it was now too late. The Tories were already talking about liberal jihadists, the opposition was throwing a party of declarations and the cordon around it was starting to tighten further. Despite the apologies and despite the intentions to change its economic policy, control had been lost.

Betting on the survival of her government began while a British tabloid even set up a “race” to see whether she would last longer as prime minister or a lettuce out of the fridge. Lettuce turned out to be the winner.

Britain is once again living at a pace of rapid political developments, while it had not been able to find its normal rhythms after the political storm of the summer that brought Johnson’s impeachment.

The Tories now have until the end of the month to choose their new leader from just three nominations. Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordant, Suella Braverman and Kemi Badenoch are the possible candidates, while it is possible that Ben Wallace will enter the race this time. Of course, there are not a few who see Boris Johnson as not hesitating and running for office. After The Times of London flagged this possibility, comes the Daily Telegram which reports that the former has booked tickets and is slowly returning to London from abroad.

So far, however, the lettuce seems more resistant since the Conservative Party, which has been in power for 12 years, and the country it governs, continues to have an image of disintegration.

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