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
president. 19 days to go to election day. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m sandra smith in new york, and i point that out, because he does not typically wear a suit. john: i bet it s a hoodie suit. i m john roberts in washington. 19 days until americans decide whether the democratic agenda in washington is working, 19 days for closing arguments and one from the white house chief of staff. first of all, we have done things to bring prices down. passed the inflation reduction act and when you look at where the economy was when we got here, 8% unemployment. we brought that down to the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years. we are putting americans back to work. businesses are open that were closed two years ago, schools are open that were closed two years ago. the president is fighting to bring down prices of everyday things like prescription drugs, gasoline, and i think that s our message to voters at this very tough time. sandra: at this ver
carts are demanding action over the same rocketing prices. so could all of that, any of that, happen here? we re all over it with alex hogan in london on truss moving out. peter doocy on the white house still digging in. shannon bream on if any party in power needs to listen up. and why jeb bush says he s fed up, not with just soaring prices, but right now falling school grades for our kids. attention, class. it s not dismissed. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. happy to have you on a busy news day. let s first get the latest out of london where the shortest serving prime minister has just announced she s out of there. alex? hi, neil. a dramatic shakeup of u.k. government today. after just six weeks the prime minister announcing that she is resigning. liz truss walking out of downing street earlier today, announcing that she will resign. citing the war in ukraine and the unstable economy as major problems coming in to this role. she had hoped to grow the economy with dra
Becoming the shortest serving prime minister in uk history. truss had been under immense pressure by some members of parliament to resign. it came after a disastrous six week tenure that put britain into deep political and economic turmoil. we set out a vision for a low tax, high grade economy 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: in her resignation speech truss said she would stay on until her successor was named. saying a new leadership contest would take place within a week. many leaders quick to react to the news, including london s labor mayor. i m not someone easily surprised and shocked but i am
sandra: major breaking news today from our top ally. britain s prime minister is out less than two months after her tax plans plunged the country in a economic free fall. what indications that we had that she would step down? despite liz truss saying she wasn t going anywhere, the ground was crumbling underneath her with her home secretary quitting beneath he. she said she failed to steer the country s economy in the right direction as she spoke to the king. we set out a vision for a low tax, high grade economy. during her resignation, truss said she came in at a time of great instability. it s her tax cuts and spending plan that tanked the economy. after six weeks those policies have been completely reversed.