dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the prime minister making the announcement moments ago outside 10 downing street. this after she failed to overcome a flurry of criticism from her own party. alex hogan is following all of this from london. hi. good morning. this has been a very contentious day here in london after a contentious two months of british prime minister liz truss time in office. she announced her resignation earlier this morning. speaking for a minute 30 seconds. very brief. take a listen. we set out a vision for a low tax, high grade economy that take advantage of the freedoms of brexit. this comes after a shaky day yesterday at downing street. another member of her government left the job. home secretary resigned. she was a popular figure in the conservative party. she has been replaced by grant sha p. he is a supporter of the former p.m. candidate who lost to truss. he quickly addressed the need to get to work. truss had only serve
braverman did was on one occasion she said in an e mail about home office business, draught statement 0ffice business, draught statement to an mp and another person using her personal e mail account. 0n her personal e mail account. on other occasions she sent e mails from her work account to her personal account just so that she could see those e mails on her smartphone while she was using for other government phone. these are serious breaches of the rules for the update government ministers and she admitted she has made the mistake. and she resigned for that i think the issue is that she was back in post afterjust think the issue is that she was back in post after just six days for that many people do that sort of punishment as insufficient. and she s notjust back in the government and a junior role, she is
code because she sent an e mail she should try a work account, private she should try a work account, private accounts for the book account private accounts for the book account and then six days later she was account and then six days later she was back on the job. she was back on the ob. labour will keep going h she was back on the ob. labour will keep going with she was back on the job. labour will keep going with it, - she was back on the job. labour will keep going with it, there . will keep going with it, there are conservative mps are really not comfortable with it, some are not keen on her brand of conservative politics but beyond that there are those who think, hang on. it is one thing doing something, breaking rules, acknowledging you have made a mistake, and she has acknowledged all of that, and having your career resuscitated a year later or two years later, there are loads of examples of that, and the sense that water has passed under the bridge, but six days. so,