JUST 44 days after being elected PM, Liz Truss yesterday quit in humiliation over her disastrous handling of the economy.
But Tory chiefs announced her replacement would again be chosen by party members in a leadership contest - with Boris Johnson said to be lined up for a shock return despite his own record of shame in No 10.
And furious voters demanded an immediate general election so the public have a say in who takes charge.
Ms Truss becomes Britain's shortest-serving PM when she steps down next week.
But while she may be gone, millions of people are still reeling from the effects of her shambolic mini-Budget for the rich, which sparked soaring mortgage payments and the threat of savage cuts to public services to fill the financial black hole she caused.
Yet the PM made no apology and didn't show any contrition for the fiasco in her 88-second resignation speech outside No10.
She left just 24 hours after insisting she was "a fighter, not a quitter" during a bruising PMQs with Keir Starmer on Wednesday.
HER STATEMENT
I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability.
Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills.
Putin's illegal war in Ukraine threatens the security of our whole continent. And our country had been held back for too long by low economic growth.
I was elected by the Conservative Party with a mandate to change this. We delivered on energy bills and on cutting national insurance.
And we set out a vision for a low-tax, high-growth economy that would take advantage of the freedoms of Brexit.
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