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5:22 p.m. : Hello @Zildal and @VinceD! With 45 days in power, Liz Truss effectively signs the shortest mandate at the head of the British government. The previous record was held by curator George Canning (119 days in 1827). According to the British daily The GuardianLiz Truss even integrates the ranking of world leaders who have remained in power for the shortest time.
5:22 p.m. : Is it a record that a British PM stays so short?
5:22 p.m. : Has Liz Truss broken the record for shortest term in British history?
4:55 p.m. : What a sense of timing! In the midst of political news across the Channel, the trailer for season 5 of The Crown has just been revealed. The return of the series which follows the history of the British monarchy is scheduled for November 9 on Netflix.
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4:31 p.m. : It’s not impossible! The scenario of a return of the former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has been circulating in the British press for several weeks. But this track is nevertheless hampered by size balls. His departure forced by a succession of scandals, including that of the Downing Street parties in violation of health restrictions, is not so far away and gives him some responsibility for the current debacle.
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4:31 p.m. : Hello could BoJo come back?
4:28 p.m. : “Pressure” on Liz Truss “had become huge”analysis on franceinfo Christophe Gillissen, professor of British civilization at the University of Caen. “She had no way out, no solution to get out of this crisis”according to him.
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3:42 p.m. : “It will be possible to conduct a poll and conclude an election by Friday, October 28.”, said Graham Brady, one of the leaders of the Conservative Party. Recall that the process of appointing Liz Truss by some 170,000 members of the ruling party took two months after the departure of Boris Johnson.
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3:38 p.m. : The new British Prime Minister will be appointed by October 28 by the Conservative Party, announces a leader of the majority.
3:36 p.m. : Not exactly @An English, Winston Churchill served under George VI and Elizabeth II. Before him, Stanley Baldwin had served as Prime Minister under George V, Edward VIII and George VI. Liz Truss is however the first woman at the head of the government to have exercised under the reigns of two sovereigns, since Margaret Thatcher had known only Elizabeth II. For the complete and older history, I invite you to consult the list of heads of the British government.
3:29 p.m. : Liz Truss will go down in history as the first Prime Minister to have worked under two reigns, HM Elizabeth II and HM Charles III.
3:13 p.m. : Britain’s opposition leader, Labor Keir Starmer, has called for parliamentary elections as soon as “now”. This new call from the Labor leader comes as Liz Truss announced that an internal Conservative party ballot would be held to choose his successor “by the end of next week”.
3:00 p.m. : On the sidelines of the summit of the Twenty-Seven in Brussels, Emmanuel Macron reacts to the announcement of the resignation of Liz Truss. “We had several meetings which were always very constructive”, says the French president. And to add that “France wants stability above all else” from the United Kingdom.
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2:59 p.m. : Liz Truss announced that an internal vote within the majority would be held “by next weekend” to appoint a successor.
2:50 p.m. : In question in particular, his first budget, which rocked his beginning of mandate, by providing for tax cuts for the richest and new expenditure partially financed to fight against the energy crisis. Under pressure from the financial markets and elected Conservatives, the former MP for Norfolk had to abandon most of her plan and sack her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng.
2:40 p.m. : The conservative head of government had been plunged into a political crisis for several weeks. His political errors and his misreading of the economic situation were pointed out, even within his majority./2022/10/19/phpvpNIbj.jpg)
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2:35 p.m. : British Prime Minister Liz Truss announces that she “submit his resignation” to King Charles III.
2:33 p.m. : The British Minister assured that he had sent his “concerns” to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, who replied on October 10 “that an investigation had been carried out into the circumstances of the incident and that it was a technical malfunction of the SU-27”.
2:32 p.m. : The United Kingdom accuses the Russian air force of having fired a missile on September 29 near a British plane patrolling above the Black Sea. A Royal Air Force civilian type RC-35 was “intercepted” in international airspace, “two armed Su-27s”British Defense Minister Ben Wallace told MPs.