Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after just six weeks.
Liz Truss has resigned as Prime Minister.
In a statement read outside Downing Street, Ms Truss said: "I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability."
"Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills."
Ms Truss added that she was elected "with a mandate to change this", saying: "We delivered on energy bills."
She says she recognises she "cannot deliver the mandate" on which she was elected and that there will be a leadership election "to be completed within the next week."
