By Friday, the Daily Star was offering its readers a live stream of a store-bought head of lettuce, positioned next to a framed photograph of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, accompanied by the question: “Day one: Which wet lettuce will last longer?”
She swiftly replaced Kwarteng , with a former foreign minister Jeremy Hunt, who pledged Saturday to restore economic credibility. Hunt lost the Conservative Party leadership race to Johnson in 2019.
Truss also walked back one of her top campaign pledges — and will now allow corporate taxes to rise from 19 percent to 25 percent in April 2023, she said. Like other nations in Europe, Britain is grappling with rising inflation, a cost of living crisis and multiple worker strikes from transport to health and postal sectors, with someKarla Adam and William Booth contributed to this report.The original version of this article incorrectly said that Anthony Scaramucci served in the White House for less than a week. He served for roughly 11 days. The article has been changed accordingly.