news. liz truss has resigned after 44 days in office, making her the shortest serving prime minister in british history. christiane amanpour and correspondent bianca noble joins us from london. she delivered a short resignation speech stating i cannot deliver on the mandate on which i was elected. yes. she s suffered the inignominy of serving as prime minister. it was an appropriately short speech because, of course, she double have a legacy to speak of. she pointed to two economic measuresing but basically her entire premiership has voichbled controversy, taking policies too far, and not taking control of her party. let s take a listen to the moment she talks about how she finds herself. we set out for a low tax, high grade communicate that would take advantage of the freedoms of brexit. i recognize, though, given the situation, i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. reporter: bianna, this has been a bruising week for a prime min
move and liz truss. what it s done is amplified more of the fringe voices in conservative politics at the expense of the more moderate majority in the center of the party. that will make it very challenging to try to find a successor to her. that s whoo why she s opinion. there s been so many discussions about having the big beast. they were challengers in liz truss s becoming prime minister. you would need four of them potentialically come pliepd. to try and leave the party. that leads to the fact that it s