Today, Liz Truss had been Prime Minister for 45 days. She will become the shortest-serving prime minister in British history when she steps down as soon as a replacement is ready. – I acknowledge that, given the situation, I am unable to deliver on the mandate to which I was elected by the Conservative Party. I have therefore spoken to His Majesty the King to notify him that I am stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party, Truss said. The leadership election will take place as early as next week, she stated. Now the Conservative Party must find a new party leader and prime minister. It became known earlier on Thursday that the British Prime Minister was in a meeting with the head of the powerful 1922 Committee of Conservative Parliamentarians, Graham Brady. Deputy Prime Minister Thérèse Coffey and party secretary Jake Berry were also present, indicating it was serious, Sky News reported. When Truss announced her resignation, 17 Conservative MPs had gone public with demands that she must resign. The number increased rapidly during Thursday. Huge Political Crisis – This is shaping up to be the biggest political crisis since World War II. The renowned historian Anthony Seldon wrote that on Twitter today. He added: – Suez in 1956 was bad, but a credible prime minister quickly took over and things returned to normal. In 1972–74, the prime minister had the government college at his back. Who now? Where now? A screenshot of historian Anthony Seldon’s remarks. Photo: Screenshot from Twitter It probably peaked for the prime minister last night. The number two minister had just resigned, and at the same time delivered strong criticism of the government she left and Liz Truss’s leadership. Then the parliament was to vote on a matter that dealt with the extraction of shale gas. It developed into a political drama in which the Conservative ruling party disintegrated before the eyes of television viewers who could not believe what they were seeing and hearing. – A shame. – Completely unheard of. – Chaos. – Irresponsible. The words did not come from the opposition. Nor from political commentators. They came from Conservative politicians in the British Parliament and describe their own party. Their own government and its leader Liz Truss. Politicians are said to have cried when Parliamentarians told both in the House of Commons and to the British media yesterday about ministers who allegedly pushed conservative politicians into the voting booth to force them to vote as the government wanted during the vote yesterday. There were reports of Conservative MPs hiding in toilets crying. Then rumors began to swirl that yet another member of the government had resigned. Ministers could neither confirm nor deny this, because they themselves did not know what the situation was. Eventually came the denial. The party’s chief whip is still in the job. There are often protests outside the British Parliament. Now the chaos is even greater inside. Photo: HENRY NICHOLLS / Reuters The government won the vote, but the chaos was complete. – The situation is indefensible. We need to make changes today to stop this chaos,” Conservative MP Crispin Blunt told the BBC this morning. Another, Simon Hoare, said Truss had 12 hours to “turn the ship around”. So it turned out to be too optimistic. – The disturbing thing is that there is no plan. It is a battle from day to day, he says. Few, intense weeks as Prime Minister It is only six and a half weeks since Liz Truss became Prime Minister. She was elected by members of the Conservative Party after Boris Johnson resigned. Suella Braverman lasted just 43 days in the job as Liz Truss’ Home Secretary. In her resignation letter, she wrote about concerns about the government’s direction and broken promises. Photo: Kin Cheung / AP But it may already seem a long time since “partygate” and “Boris the clown” upset Westminster. The death of the Queen, tax cuts that drove the pound into the basement, replacement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, total turnaround of the economic policy, replacement of the Home Secretary and thus this chaos surrounding voting last night. Liz Truss has not had a good start. Now most things indicate that it is coming to an end. Yesterday Liz Truss defended herself in Parliament. – I am someone who fights, not someone who gives up, was the message then. So it turned out not to be true after all. Even before Truss left, the discussion was underway about who could take over and how the party could get rid of her. Grant Shapps admitted the government is in trouble as he was last night appointed as the new Home Secretary. Photo: TOBY MELVILLE / Reuters The rules give Truss a 12-month conservation period. It was discussed to change the rules, but in the end she chose to leave herself. The pressure was too great. The Conservative Party’s Dilemma The party’s problem is that it has no obvious heir. Nor had it when Truss was elected Prime Minister in September. Therefore, the match was even and the victory anything but convincing. Party members at the time still preferred Boris Johnson to both Liz Truss and rival Rishi Sunak. They still do when they are asked the question in opinion polls. But recently more than half of them answered that they thought Truss should give up. In other words, they regretted the choice they made less than two months ago. Former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak is also a possible heir. While others point to the new Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt as the new Prime Minister and Sunak as Finance Minister. But the question is whether the party, the system and the voters benefit from the Conservative Party once again selecting a leader of the country. New elections or another elected prime minister? The previous prime minister who first came to power because the voters wanted him to was David Cameron. He was elected in 2010 and led a coalition government until the 2015 election. The Conservative Party also won that election, and this time the party was able to get rid of its coalition partner the Liberal Democrats and govern alone. David Cameron (top) was the previous Prime Minister who first became Prime Minister through an ordinary general election. Theresa May took over when Cameron resigned after the Brexit vote, Boris Johnson was installed by the Conservative Party when May resigned, as was Liz Truss when Johnson resigned just under two months ago. Photo: POOL / Reuters But when he miscalculated the mood in the 2016 EU referendum and lost, he resigned. Theresa May came in without a general election being held. She was seen by many as a transitional figure, and when she did not get a majority for her Brexit deal with the EU, she gave up. Boris Johnson was installed as Prime Minister in the summer of 2019. Even then the voters had not had their say. However, they got it that winter, and Johnson won a landslide election for his party. His leadership is perhaps best remembered for his and the government apparatus’s breach of its own corona rules and poor handling of the first weeks of the pandemic. Anyway, he was forced to resign this summer. Now the party is in much greater chaos. In a short time, the British will have yet another new prime minister.
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