Liz Truss lettuce

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The Daily Star livestream on 20 October 2022, featuring the lettuce several hours after Liz Truss announced her resignation
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On 14 October 2022, the British tabloid newspaper the Daily Star began a livestream of an iceberg lettuce next to a framed photograph of Liz Truss, who was appointed prime minister of the United Kingdom the previous month. This act followed an opinion piece in The Economist that compared the expected brevity of Truss's premiership to the shelf life of a head of lettuce, with the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis occurring weeks into her tenure and leading many political commentators to opine that Truss's resignation was imminent. She announced her resignation as prime minister on 20 October 2022, before the lettuce had wilted; the Daily Star subsequently declared the lettuce "victorious" over Truss.[1][2]

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  2. ^ "Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister with new Tory leader to be in place by 28 October as calls for general election grow – live". The Guardian. 20 October 2022. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.