The outgoing PM won power promising radical change, but it ended in disaster, after just 45 days.
By Nick EardleyLiz Truss came to power promising a new economic and political era. It is 45 days since she became PM - the shortest premiership in British history.
There were warnings from former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and his supporters that her economic plans were risky and could backfire. Some said it would be electoral suicide. But they lost the argument in the Conservative Party. Within 48 hours came the first of a series of bold economic gambles, which went considerably further than almost everyone expected.
Team Truss believed the markets would give the country space to restructure the economy. But within days - it became clear they had been wrong and the wheels started to fall off their economic experiment. Under pressure from backbench MPs, Ms Truss buckled. The same day, she told the BBC she would not change her mind - she did. She sent the chancellor out to explain the decision.
"Jeremy Hunt is de facto PM," said one MP, speaking for many. "I don't see the point of her," added another. A couple of days later, the home secretary resigned over a breach of the ministerial code - but launched a blistering attack on the prime minister and her programme.Suella Braverman launched a withering attack on Ms Truss in her resignation letter
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