election to be completed within the next week. this will ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our country s economic stability and national security. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen. thank you. the high stakes political scramble in britain to find yet another prime minister. i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. liz truss stepping down after 45 days in office, her tenure the shortest at any prime minister in history. sending shock waves across britain and driving the tabloids into a dizzy. who will be the next prime minister? they expect to name a new prime minister by the end of next week. even the name of former prime ministers are being floated, remember what boris johnson said? the terminator quote he may have been looking for is i ll be back. let s go live to london and bring in max foster. quite a moment in the uk. reporter: absolutely. boris johnson definitely the words on everyone
Remember what boris johnson said? the terminator quote he may have been looking for is i ll be back. let s go live to london and bring in max foster. quite a moment in the uk. reporter: absolutely. boris johnson definitely the words on everyone s lips this morning here in west minister. he hasn t officially entered the race, but people expecting him to go up against his arch nemesis ritchie suemax to replace liz truss. anything is possible in british politics at the moment. she went from there. mr. speaker, i am a fighter and not a quitter. to this in a matter of hours. i m resigning as leader of the conservative party. with just 45 days under her belt, british prime minister liz truss announced on thursday she would step down.