Liz Truss lettuce

On 14 October 2022, British tabloid newspaper the Daily Star began a livestream of an iceberg lettuce next to a framed photograph of Liz Truss, who was appointed prime minister of the United Kingdom the previous month. This act followed an opinion piece in The Economist that compared the expected brevity of Truss's premiership to the shelf life of a head of lettuce, with the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis occurring weeks into her tenure and leading many political commentators to opine that Truss's resignation was imminent. She announced her resignation as prime minister on 20 October 2022 (having served just 49 days as prime minister, the shortest tenure in British history), before the lettuce had wilted; the Daily Star subsequently declared the lettuce "victorious" over Truss. Background Liz Truss became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 6 September 2022, following...