After the “chaotic” and episodic vote in Parliament on Wednesday – which turned into a … “mutiny” – Truss had understood that it could no longer remain in power.
On Thursday, October 20, the British Prime Minister Liz Trussannounced she was stepping down just six weeks after being appointed on September 6 by the late Queen Elizabeth.
Her resignation it was only a matter of time since, as the British media write, her political fate had been “sealed” 6 days earlier, when she “stalked” Finance Minister Kwasi Quarteg and began to lose the confidence of her MPs.
After the “chaotic” and episodic vote in Parliament on Wednesday – which turned into a … “mutiny” – Truss had understood that it could no longer remain in power.
“She sounded terrified by how quickly everything was happening but still believed she could survive,” an ally told the Daily Mail.
But that same night – Wednesday night and Truss’ last in Downing Street – the 47-year-old British prime minister stayed awake until dawn.
Truss was texting friends and co-workers at 4 a.m. and that’s when they knew it was “game over.”
“Then the messages started coming in and her mood had changed. It’s never a good sign to be texting people at 4am and at that point he probably realized it was all over,” said the same source.
At midday on Thursday, Truss met the chairman of the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee, the committee that sets the rules for selecting and replacing the Tory leader, Sir Graham Brady, who informed her that he had now lost her confidence. of her government and if they went to a motion of censure, she would lose it.
Moments later, Truss announced her resignation in front of Downing Street.
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