convened her final cabinet meeting afterjust seven weeks in office, making her the shortest serving prime minister in british history. i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. i have therefore spoken to his majesty the king to notify him that i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. this is the easy bit, they will appreciate the transition from one prime minister to the other. after that, in tough road lies ahead with rising inflation, rising bills and rising inflation, rising bills and rising interest rates. we will bring you more throughout another momentous day in british politics. do stay with us on bbc news. it has been a period of immense instability in british politics, the transitions between two prime ministers in a matter of months. a busy summer, a long contest to decide who would become the leader of the conservative party, the ruling party in the uk at the moment. they have been in office first with coalition partn
damage done in a relatively short period. damage done in a relatively short eriod. , , , period. absolutely, there will be able to conservative period. absolutely, there will be able to conservative citrine - period. absolutely, there will be | able to conservative citrine gloss over the last seven weeks and pretend it did not happen, but you speak to a lot of tory mps are speak to economists listen to economists and a lot of them will say liz truss has made rishi sunak sjob a lot harder. there will be that strange moment today where there is the physical handover of power where we see staff members come out here and go back to number 11 and disappear out the back door. go back to number“ and disappear out the back door. . . out the back door. some of them will not have out the back door. some of them will not have jobs out the back door. some of them will not have jobs any out the back door. some of them will not have jobs any more. - out the back door. some of them will