How the world reported on Liz Truss’s resignation

The outgoing PM was dubbed ‘the failed lady’ by German newspaper

Liz Truss outside 10 Downing Street
Liz Truss announces her resignation in statement outside 10 Downing Street
(Image credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

“The lettuce outlasts Liz Truss,” announced The New York Times within an hour of the prime minister’s resignation.

In a “ludicrous statement befitting of a ludicrous moment”, the paper explained to US readers, the UK’s Daily Star had pitted a piece of salad against the embattled Tory leader in a web-cam stunt as Truss’s premiership descended into chaos. And “in the end”, said The Atlantic, “the lettuce won”.

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