After just 45 days, Liz Truss has announced she is to step down as prime minister making her the shortest-serving PM in UK history.
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The announcement, made by Truss outside Downing Street, follows the near-complete evaporation of her political authority which has seen her crash the markets, lose two key ministers and shed the confidence of almost all her own MPs.

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