Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned as UK prime minister in a statement outside Downing Street Thursday afternoon. She said she could not deliver the mandate she was elected and had notified the King that she was resigning as Tory leader. There will be Conservative leadership election to be completed within the next week, she said. I will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen," she said Her departure after 45 days in office makes her the shortest-serving PM in UK history It comes after she met the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs as more Tories called for her to quit. Truss's premiership has been in turmoil since her mini-budget last month, which rocked markets and was later scrapped by her new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt. The resignation of her home secretary on Wednesday and a chaotic vote in the Commons sealed her fate. There was fury on Wednesday evening around the vote and the methods used to get MPs to vote with the government. Jeremy ...