AARON CHOWN
On Sept. 6 his ailing mother said a formal hello to Liz Truss at Balmoral—two days later the queen was dead. After a 49-day constitutional, fiscal and political rollercoaster that left many Britons with profound motion sickness, it fell to her son, King Charles III, to officially defenestrate the woman who now holds the humiliating record of being Britain’s shortest serving prime minister.
Truss emerged from the famous front door at 10 Downing Street shortly after 11am on Tuesday and delivered a perfunctory 3-minute speech which hailed the accession of King Charles III and, in a bizarre echo of her political hero Boris Johnson, included a garbled quote from the Roman philosopher Seneca.
Truss notably failed to apologize for a single element of her disastrous tenure—which saw the Bank of England forced to step in with emergency measures to prevent a run on the British pension system—instead insisting that she had somehow been right about everything.