British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation after six weeks in office.
She will remain in office until a successor has been appointed, the Conservative politician said on Thursday in London in front of Downing Street.
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The British pound appreciated after the announcement: the course rose by almost one percent against the dollar.
The British stock market also gained around one percent.
Truss only succeeded Boris Johnson at the beginning of September, who resigned after several scandals and scandals under pressure from his own party.
But Truss has been fighting for her political survival in office since mid-September after she triggered a fiasco on the financial markets with her tax cut plans and felt compelled to turn around.
Dissatisfaction with and resistance to her grew in her party.
According to polls, the Conservatives are about 30 percentage points behind the opposition Labor Party.
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