The resignation of Liz Truss live on TV. The finance minister reassures the markets

Liz Truss resigned as prime minister after just 44 days in office.

This is the shortest time in Downing Street for a prime minister in UK history. 

"I recognize, given the situation, that I cannot keep faith with the mandate under which I was elected by the Conservative party," Truss said in a short statement made in front of Downing Street. I spoke to His Majesty the King to inform him that I resign as leader of the conservative party. " 

In his statement, Truss explained that he had agreed with Graham Brady, chairman of the committee of parliamentarians of the 1922 committee, a schedule under which it will be replaced by October 28, three days before the budget law debate.

"I took office at a time of great economic and international instability - said Truss -. Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills. Putin's war in Ukraine threatens the security of our entire continent".

Lei truss concluded her by explaining that she was elected with the mandate to create greater economic growth, but that she was unable to achieve it.

The race for the succession of the resigning Liz Truss as future leader of the majority Conservative Party and future British premier will be reduced to only three possible candidates.

You have announced the 1922 committee, an internal body of the Tory parliamentary group, specifying that according to the new rules just approved, the support of at least 100 deputies will be needed to be able to participate in the dispute, out of a group that in total has about 350. 

The opposition is calling for immediate elections

After the resignation of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, Labor and Lib Dems insist on the need to go back to voting.

"We need general elections now," said Labor leader Keir Starmer. 

"We don't need another conservative prime minister to stagger from crisis to crisis. We need general elections and conservatives out of power," Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey tweeted after his resignation was announced. .

Meanwhile, the Chancellor of the Exchequer

- a few days in office - has confirmed that he does not intend to run for the leadership of the Conservative party.

Allies of former British Chancellor of the Exchequer

, quoted by the Daily Telegraph, report that he is "certain" nominated for the Tory leadership following the resignation of Liz Truss.

Sunak had been defeated by Truss in the competition held in the summer, which then became prime minister.

According to Sky News, the leader of the Municipalities,

, could also apply and that at the moment she is evaluating and "getting information" about it.

In last summer's Tory leadership race, Mordaunt came in third.

The favorites according to bookmakers

The bookmakers immediately got to work.

According to Betfair, former chancellor Rishi Sunak, the man who had been Truss's rival in the post-Johnson 'race', is the favorite (11/10) to succeed her.

Behind him, Penny Mordaunt on 7/2 and Ben Wallace, the current Defense Minister, on 8/1.

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, odds are 9/1, although men in his entourage have already made it known that he will not run for the post-Truss (the man who is called the 'British Dragons' evidently wants stay at the helm of the economy).     

Former Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Theresa May are given 1/13 and 1/16, respectively.

Macron: "I hope Great Britain regains stability"

"I will not enter the political life of Great Britain" but "I hope that Great Britain will find stability as soon as possible, it is important for us and for Europe", said French President Emmanuel Macron, commenting on the resignation of Liz Truss. margin of the EU Council.

Zakharova: "Truss and his catastrophic ignorance"

The comment by Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, is more caustic.

: "Of the premiership of Liz Truss will be remembered the pose of her with the helmet on the tank, the catastrophic illiteracy and the funeral of the queen immediately after her audience" he had with her.

"Britain has never known such shame as a prime minister," she added. 

Medvedev echoes her: “The frantic Liz Truss deserves the Nobel Prize in Economics for the fastest collapse of national finances”.

He then greets her like this: "Bye Bye Liz Truss, congratulations to the lettuce".

The reference is to the fact that in recent days - while Truss's chair was now in the balance in the wake of his government's disastrous economic choices - bookmakers had begun to bet on his resignation and a tabloid had put him 'in the running' with a lettuce, asking its readers if they thought it should get out of Downing Street before the vegetable became inedible.

Even the weekly Economist, which

, dubbed it "The Iceberg lady", comparing it to the iceberg salad that spoils quickly.

Biden thanks Liz Truss

"The United States and the United Kingdom are strong allies and lasting friends, and this fact will never change. I thank Premier Liz Truss for her collaboration on a number of issues, including Russia's responsibility for its war against Russia. Ukraine. We will continue our close partnership with the UK government as we work together to address the global challenges our nations face. "

Thus in a note the president of the United States, Joe Biden, commented on the resignation of Liz Truss as prime minister of the United Kingdom.

Boris Johnson and the interrupted vacation

Boris Johnson interrupts his vacation in the Dominican Republic where he was, to return immediately to London, after the resignation of Liz Truss as prime minister.

There is also the former prime minister among the candidates to replace Liz Truss, who would be ready to take back his old job.

The pound reacted positively to Truss's farewell, confirming that markets evidently prefer the power vacuum rather than the premier on Downing Street.