Following UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s shock resignation on Thursday after just six weeks in office, the race is now on to find her successor, and it could happen by as early as next week.
Truss, 47, announced she was stepping down in a lengthy speech outside the prime minister’s official residence at Number 10 Downing Street in which she acknowledged, “Given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.”
Her departure came amid mounting public pressure following backlash and market carnage owing to her and then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s so-called “mini-budget” which was unveiled earlier in September….