In a statement outside No 10, Liz Truss said she had informed the King she was resigning and that a leadership election would take place within the next week.
In a statement outside No 10, Ms Truss said she had informed the King she was resigning and that a leadership election would take place within the next week.
Conservative MPs have been more vocal in their criticism and demands for Ms Truss to go, especially after a chaotic vote on a Labour motion in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening. Labour had introduced a vote seeking to ban fracking, which became treated as a “confidence motion” in the Government. The Government won the vote, although there were allegations of senior ministers bullying Tory MPs into voting with the government.
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