Liz Truss resigns as British prime minister after 6 weeks in office

Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced she would step down from officer Thursday after serving just six weeks in office.

Truss’ perilous stint on Downing Street was marked by fiscal fiasco and hostile opposition form her own conservative party over her proposal to cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy, which sent financial markets into a weeks-long slide.

Truss, 47, replaced Boris Johnson who resigned over the summer following a ethics scandal that 50 members of the government to quit in protest.

Britain’s shortest tenured leader had been welcomed into office by the late Queen Elizabeth days before the monarch died last month.