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It came down to Miss Truss: Tory turmoil at 10 Downing Street as UK PM bows out

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It is a British cliché that a week is a long time in politics. Liz Truss proved it true on Thursday when she became the shortest-serving British prime minister in history. In a matter of days, her U-turn on economic plans that made global markets jittery and the resignations of key ministers prompted calls from within Truss' party for her to step down. But the shakeup at the top is hardly an outlier in the recent history of Britain's Conservatives, whose latest troubles have been years in the making. For more on the UK's latest political upheaval, FRANCE 24 is joined by Dr Philip Catney Senior Lecturer in Politics at Keele University. He describes the downfall of Liz Truss as all but inevitable. "Despite being at the Cabinet table for 10 years, in different roles, she didn't seem to have any understanding of actually how to run a government, which is quite remarkable."

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