Liz Truss announces she will resign as British prime minister
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LIZ Truss has announced she will resign as British prime minister.
Truss said she has told King Charles III she is resigning as leader of the Conservative Party.
In a statement from Downing Street in London she said: “I recognise … given the situation I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.”
Truss said there would be a leadership election to replace her “to be delivered within the next week.” (dpa/NAN)
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