No resignation honours for Liz Truss – Lib Dems

October 22, 2022 - 9:57 am

As the tweet says:

Handing out more expensive gongs to Conservative allies would be a truly remarkable way to reward the shortest tenure as Prime Minister in British political history.

There should be no honours list for Liz Truss.
— Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) October 21, 2022

Much of how the British political system is meant to work is based on the idea that someone becomes Prime Minister by winning a general election and then stays as PM until they lose a general election. Yet the last time that happened was Ted Heath:

The last Prime Minister to take up office by winning a general election and to lose office then by losing one was Ted Heath.

Which means for anyone born after 19 June 1970, this – the theory on which so much of our political system is based – has not happened in their lifetime
— Mark Pack 🔶 (@markpack) October 22, 2022

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