British Prime Minister Liz Truss Resigns After 44 Days

British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her decision to resign just six weeks after taking office, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, NBC News reports.

Truss' term lasted only 45 days, breaking the previous record of shortest held by George Canning, who served for 119 days during the early 19th century.

The 47-year-old promised the United Kingdom a drastic economic shift through low taxes and high growth, which eventually led to her political downfall.

Truss' finance master, Kwasi Kwarteng, announced 45 billion pounds (equivalent to $48 billion USD) in unfunded tax cuts, which plummeted the government's cost of borrowing and led to an emergency intervention from the central Bank of England and official rebuke from the International Monetary Fund.

Kwarteng was fired shortly after and replaced by Jeremy Hunt, who set out to reverse nearly all of the controversial economic policies set by the regime, but Britain is still dealing with issues from the plan as record inflation and high mortgage rates continue.

Truss was unfavorable compared to rotting lettuce by the British tabloid the Economist, which wrote that her economic failures within her first seven days in office were "roughly the shelf-life of a lettuce."

Truss assured the Parliament that she was a "fighter, not a quitter" amid public criticism on Wednesday (October 19), just hours before her resignation.

There is no clear successor to take over as prime minister, NBC News reports.

Truss is now the Johnson is now the fourth consecutive British prime minister to resign prior to the completion of their term, following her predecessors Boris Johnson (2019-22), who stepped down in August, Theresa May (2016-19) and David Cameron (2010-16).