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
in a pullish manner despite not having any mandate to speak of. she was elected on a slither of the electorate. as the calls for her departure increased the political circumstances became even more uncomf uncomfortable for her. that s when we had reports of conservative lawmakers and some members of truss s cabinet manhandling over lawmakers trying to get them into the right lobby. that had them come out and say they never felt so ashamed and embarrassed of the shape their party is in now. you can t get over the shock waves, forcing the bank of england to step in and intervene, the pension system to