<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss" id="mwAQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Liz Truss">Liz Truss</a> steps down as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_prime_minister" id="mwAQU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British prime minister">British Prime Minister</a> and leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" id="mwAQY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> amid the country's political crisis, serving for the least time of any British Prime Minister [49 days].<sup about="#mwt75" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_20#cite_note-13" id="mwAQc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQg">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt72" class="citation news cs1" id="mwB40"><a class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63332037" id="mwB44" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Liz Truss resigns: PM's exit kicks off another Tory leadership race"</a>. <i id="mwB48">BBC News</i>. 2022-10-20<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB5A">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB5E">2022-10-24</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt72" class="Z3988" id="mwB5I" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=Liz+Truss+resigns%3A+PM%27s+exit+kicks+off+another+Tory+leadership+race&amp;rft.date=2022-10-20&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fuk-politics-63332037&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+20"></span></span>