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British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after tumultuous 6-week term

Truss, who said she will remain in office for a few more days, has been prime minister for just 45 days.

Chicago Sun-Times

Liz Truss’s leadership in quotes: From fighter to quitter

A look back at what she has said since winning the Conservative Party leadership battle.

The Independent UK

UK's Sunak, Mordaunt in running to be next PM - Sky

Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt, two contenders in Britain's previous leadership contest this year, are believed to be in the running to become the nation's next prime minister following Liz Truss's resignation on Thursday, Sky News reported.

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How Liz Truss's brief and chaotic tenure as Britain's PM unravelled

Whether it was sexism that brought her down, her inexperience and overconfidence, her party's unravelling, or a combination of all three, Liz Truss plunged over the glass cliff with breathtaking speed.

ABC News

The mini-budget that broke Britain – and Liz Truss

From soaring mortgage costs to a sterling slump, the fiscal event set off a chain of chaos that led to PM’s downfall

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister after just 44 days in power

Liz Truss announced on Thursday she was quitting after just 44 days in No10, becoming Britain’s shortest serving Prime Minister. Speaking in Downing Street shortly after 1.30pm, she told the nation she was resigning after an open revolt by Tory MPs against her chaotic and crisis-hit premiership.

Evening Standard

Putin Could Be Replaced By More Extreme Leader, Warns Former UK Spy Chief

The former head of Britain's MI6 recently said Russian President Vladimir Putin could be replaced by someone more extreme

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Former Children's Laureate joins calls for Black history to be compulsory in UK schools

Malorie Blackman who is best known for Noughts and Crosses which was turned into a BBC drama, said that history lessons should tell “the whole truth” about Britain's role in slavery.

Daily Mirror

Britain cannot afford chaos of Conservatives any more, says Starmer

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Conservative Party needs to keep the future of the British people out of its “pathetic squabbles”.He said the Tories have wrecked national and household finances, adding: “Britain deserves better, Britain cannot afford the chaos of the Conservatives any more; we need a general…

Evening Standard

Long Covid could become ‘millstone hanging around the NHS’, expert warns

An estimated 2.3 million people in Britain have self-reported long Covid, according to latest figures from the Office of National Statistics

Evening Standard

EU media and leaders blame Brexit for UK political ‘insanity’ as Truss quits

Observers suggest PM’s failure could spell end of ‘wishful thinking’ of a sovereign UK going its own way

The Guardian - UK

Russian warplane fired missile 'in vicinity of' RAF jet after being closely shadowed

Ben Wallace told parliament Britain had suspended patrols following the incident and expressed their concerns to Russia's Defence Minister

Daily Mirror

Child sex abuse in Britain is epidemic, UK inquiry says

Child sex abuse is epidemic in Britain, affecting millions of victims, and those who work with young people should be prosecuted if they fail to report it, a seven-year public inquiry concluded on Thursday.

Reuters

Andy Burnham says it's 'very hard to see' Liz Truss surviving and that Tories have 'forfeited the right to govern'

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, meanwhile, has angrily called for a general election 'now'

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The Independent UK

Starmer lambasts Tories’ ‘pathetic squabbles’ and calls for general election

The Labour leader told the TUC congress the Government had reached a ‘a new chaotic low’.

Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer demands general election now after Tories hit 'chaotic new low'

The Labour leader ripped into Liz Truss's collapsing Government, saying the 'failures of the past twelve years have now come to the boil' but the Tories can only focus on 'pathetic squabbles'

The Guardian - UK

We think of Britain as a world-beating economy. We would be better off thinking about Taiwan

Instead of living with this delusion, leaders should examine emerging market economies and try to emulate their success, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

Asharq Al-Awsat

UNSC Discusses Iranian Drones, Links Them to Resolution 2231

UN Security Council diplomats are examining Iran’s transfer of drones, ballistic missiles, and even military experts to support Russia’s war in Ukraine as it violates UNSC resolution 2231, which is part of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Ukrainian and western officials have affirmed that Iran is supplying…

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U.S., allies discuss Iranian drone transfers to Russia at U.N. -U.S. State Department

The United States, Britain and France raised the issue of Iran's alleged transfer of drones to Russia at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.

Leeds Live

Leeds park is Britain's best place to spot autumn leaves

A wide variety of deciduous trees makes this council-owned park the UK's number one

Tribune News Service

Truss fires Home Secretary Braverman as UK government risks imploding

LONDON — Liz Truss fired Home Secretary Suella Braverman for what was described as a national security breach, a dramatic move that heaps even more pressure on Britain’s premier as she clings to power.

Tribune News Service

Truss fires Home Secretary Braverman as UK government risks imploding

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Liz Truss and the Tories: it’s time to go

Editorial: The prime minister has caused chaos in government and made Britain poorer. She must not be allowed to stay in office to do more harm

Reuters

New UK interior minister praises Hunt after mini-budget debacle

Britain's new interior minister, Grant Shapps, praised Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday, saying that while the government was having a difficult time, the country's new finance minister, Hunt, was doing a great job.

Reuters

Britain's Wallace discussed Ukraine security concerns on Washington trip -source

British Defence Minister Ben Wallace met his U.S counterpart in Washington this week to discuss shared security concerns about the situation in Ukraine, a senior defence source said in response to speculation around the sudden trip.

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