In photos: Liz Truss will go down in history as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister
British Prime Minister Liz Truss took office Sept. 6, 2022 and resigned Oct. 20, 2022 with plans to stay in office until a replacement is named.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson enters 10 Downing Street, after his reading a resignation statement in London, July 7, 2022.Alberto Pezzali/The Associated Press
Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Liz Truss, speaks during the launch of her campaign to be Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister, in Westminster, in London on July 14, 2022.Frank Augstein/The Associated Press
Liz Truss, right, and Rishi Sunak during The Sun's Showdown: The Fight for No10, the latest head-to-head debate for the Conservative Party leader candidates, at TalkTV's Ealing Studios, west London, Tuesday July 26, 2022.Dominic Lipinski/The Associated Press
Contender to become the country's next Prime minister and leader of the Conservative party British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss meets with supporters during a campaign event in Leeds, on July 28, 2022.HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP/Getty Images
Liz Truss during a hustings event in Darlington, England, Aug. 9, 2022, as part of the campaign to be leader of the Conservative Party and the next prime minister.Danny Lawson/The Associated Press
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss meets supporters as she arrives to attend a Conservative leadership election hustings at the NEC, Birmingham, on Aug. 23, 2022.Rui Vieira/The Associated Press
Left Rishi Sunak applauds beside Liz Truss with her husband Hugh O'Leary, right, after it was announced that she is the new Conservative party leader, and will become the next Prime Minister at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on September 5, 2022 in London, England.Stefan Rousseau/Getty Images
New Conservative Party leader and incoming prime minister Liz Truss (R) arrives at Conservative Party Headquarters on September 5, 2022 in London, England.Carl Court/Getty Images
Britain's Queen Elizabeth welcomes Liz Truss during an audience at Balmoral, Scotland, where she invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative party to become Prime Minister and form a new government, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022.Jane Barlow/The Associated Press
People use their phones to film and take pictures as Britain's newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss arrives by car to deliver her first speech outside 10 Downing Street in London, on September 6, 2022.JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images
Britain's King Charles III during his first audience with Prime Minister Liz Truss at Buckingham Palace, London on Sept. 9, 2022 following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.Yui Mok/The Associated Press
British Prime Minister Liz Truss meets with U.S. President Joe Biden during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at United Nations General Assembly Hall on September 21, 2022 in New York City.WPA Pool/Getty Images
Photo provided by UK Parliament, Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss, second left, and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, third left, are seen in the House of Commons in London, Sept. 23, 2022 after announcing a sweeping plan of tax cuts.JESSICA TAYLOR/The Associated Press
Protesters wearing heads of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, right, and Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey, left, attend a rally in Victoria Square, outside the Conservative Party annual conference at the International Convention Center, in Birmingham, England on Oct. 2, 2022.Jacob King/The Associated Press
Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss (C) and Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng (L) visit a construction site for a medical innovation campus in Birmingham, central England, on October 4, 2022.AFP Contributor#AFP/AFP/Getty Images
British Prime Minister Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary wave at Britain's Conservative Party's annual conference in Birmingham, Britain, October 5, 2022.HANNAH MCKAY/Reuters
Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss attends a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London on Oct. 14, 2022 after she fired her Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng and reversed course on sweeping tax cuts.Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images
Photo released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt at the House of Commons, in London, on October 17, 2022. The British government on October 17, 2022 axed almost all of its debt-fuelled tax cuts unveiled last month to avert fresh markets chaos, in a humiliating climbdown for embattled Prime Minister Liz Truss.JESSICA TAYLOR/AFP/Getty Images
British Prime Minister Liz Truss announces her resignation, as her husband Hugh O'Leary stands nearby, outside Number 10 Downing Street, London, Britain.HENRY NICHOLLS/Reuters
British Prime Minister Liz Truss walks into Number 10 Downing Street, after announcing her resignation, London, Britain October 20, 2022.TOBY MELVILLE/Reuters
Larry the cat sits outside Number 10 Downing Street following British Prime Minister Liz Truss resignation speech, in London, Britain.TOBY MELVILLE/Reuters