For several days, the “Daily Star” put face to face the portrait of Liz Truss and a lettuce, wondering which would last the longest.
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“Breaking news: lettuce officially outlasted Liz Truss. » The tabloid Daily Star, featuring a salad next to a portrait of the British Prime Minister, proclaimed Thursday, October 20 the victory of the plant after the resignation of Liz Truss. For several days, the United Kingdom wondered how long Liz Truss, unpopular as a British leader has rarely been, was still going to stay in power. Arriving in Downing Street 44 days ago, the curator announced her resignation on Thursday.
“Everyone hail the lettuce,” tweeted the Daily Star, whose jokes are not always in the best taste, assuring that the lettuce had refused “for the moment to make comments on his political future”. It’s been seven days since the tabloid placed a salad next to a portrait of Liz Truss and broadcast the image live on the internet. He had played it, meeting with success all over the world. A mug appeared near the salad and the portrait, with the motto “Keep calm and carry on”, created to boost morale during the Second World War.
Bets had been launched on social networks: which one would last the longest? At one point, the lettuce was even topped with a blond wig, without the Daily Star does not care about accusations of sexism. This comparison between Liz Truss and an iceberg salad was however first published in a most serious newspaper: The Economist. The weekly published a column on “The iceberg lady” (“The iceberg lady”) while Liz Truss is a great admirer of Margaret Thatcher, “The iron lady” (“The iron lady”).
“Name something that lasts longer than Liz Truss Prime Minister”
“However long Liz Truss is in office, she will be remembered as the Prime Minister whose hold on power was the shortest in British political history,” said The Economist in this column.
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“She kept control for seven days. It’s the lifespan of a lettuce, “wrote the newspaper, detailing its calculation: between its arrival in power on September 6 and the announcement on the 23rd of its budgetary measures which triggered panic on the markets, if the 10 days of mourning after the death of Queen Elizabeth II are deducted, there are only seven days left. The English, known for their sarcastic humor, had a blast on Thursday. “Name something that lasts longer than Liz Truss Prime Minister,” the “No Context Brits” account tweeted.