Timeline: Liz Truss’s 45 days as UK Prime Minister

Liz Truss he spent nearly three months campaigning for the keys to 10 Downing Street, but was barely able to keep them for 45 days.

With her resignation this Thursday, the Conservative politician has become the UK’s prime minister to less time has exerted in the position.

LOOK: The keys to understanding the political chaos that ended the government of Liz Truss, the shortest in the history of the United Kingdom

Truss stated that he is leaving due to the impossibility of “fulfill the mandate” that he received from his party’s base at the end of last summer and launch “a bold” plan to put an end to what he came to describe as “years of stagnation and low growth”.

“I will reduce taxes to reward hard work and boost business and attract investment,” the then-new premier said on September 7 at the gates of 10 Downing Street.

Precisely his attempts to fulfill this promise sealed the fate of politics: his economic plan unleashed an unprecedented economic storm, and generated a political crisis which forced him to resign.

Below we present the key moments that marked Truss’s short but convulsive period.

Graph with the key dates of the Truss government.

Source: Elcomercio