Quiz of The Week: 15 - 21 October

It has been another turbulent week in British political history after Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned from her post just six weeks after she came to power.

In a statement made outside 10 Downing Street on Thursday afternoon, Truss said that she could not “deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party” and had spoken to King Charles to tender her resignation. She is to remain as PM until a successor is chosen in a leadership election that is to be “completed within the next week”, she said.

Truss is now the holder of an ignominious record as the shortest-serving prime minister in modern British political history and leaves her party in chaos as – in the words of the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason – they attempt to “dredge a name” out of their ranks to avoid going to a general election.

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As the Conservative Party leadership race begins, former prime minister Boris Johnson has reportedly flown back from a holiday in the Caribbean to launch his campaign – just three months after he was ousted from the job by his own MPs. His allies say they are confident he can secure the 100 backers needed to get his name on the ballot.

Johnson’s former chancellor turned leadership rival Rishi Sunak has also secured early backing from MPs, as has the leader of the House of Commons Penny Mourdant, who was knocked out in the fifth round of the last leadership race, which took place over the summer.

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Need a reminder of some of the other headlines over the past seven days?

• Citizens across China have marked the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th congress this week as officials came together in Beijing for the occasion. President Xi Jinping is expected to begin an unprecedented third term as the CCP’s leader and military commander-in-chief.
• A Hong Kong pro-democracy protester described how he was beaten in a “barbaric” attack by Chinese diplomats after being dragged into their consulate grounds in Manchester.
• Iranian competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi was greeted by hundreds of supporters at Imam Khomeini international airport outside Tehran as she returned home from the Asian championships in Seoul, South Korea, where she had competed without wearing a hijab.
• BBC chair Richard Sharp insisted that the broadcaster’s “best days are ahead” as the institution turned 100 this week.