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Month: October 2022
Cassetteboy vs Liz Truss – Nu Tax Plan
How are people reacting to the resignation of Liz Truss as prime minister? (With sarcasm)
Twitter is asking – is it time for a general election?
Truss didn’t outlive a lettuce
LONDON — The question was all over British social media. Who would survive longer: the United Kingdom’s prime minister, Liz Truss, or a wilting head of lettuce with a shelf life of just 10 days?
By Thursday, at lunch time, Britain had its answer. It was the lettuce.
In the end, Liz Truss did not outlast a wilting lettuce, Washington Post
Liz Truss takes the record for shortest-serving prime minister
Just 44 days after becoming prime minister, Liz Truss has announced she is to step down.
Until now the shortest-serving PM was George Canning who died in August 1827. He had spent only 119 days in office.
Who is Liz Truss? Political journey of UK’s shortest-serving prime minister, BBC News
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Just in case you forgot Jeremy Hunt’s earlier “work” here’s a reminder.
Hunt is best known for the six years he spent as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, a role he took up in 2012. The NHS in 2022, after a dozen years of Tory austerity and mismanagement, is a threadbare institution in a protracted state of crisis, brought about directly by Hunt on the orders of David Cameron and George Osborne.
In 2012, Jeremy faced calls to resign over his role in the BSkyB takeover. However, he survived the scandal and went on to become health secretary.
In 2017 Jeremy Hunt was accused of presiding over an “absolute scandal” after it emerged thousands of NHS patients may have been put at risk by an administrative blunder.