{"id":500,"date":"2022-10-21T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2022-10-21T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T06:41:10","slug":"truss-resigns-after-45-days-in-office-as-british-prime-minister-with-shortest-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/?p=500&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Truss resigns after 45 days in office as British prime minister with shortest tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>British Prime Minister Truss announced her resignation on the evening of Thursday (20th) local time. After only 45 days in office, she has also become the shortest-term prime minister in British history, breaking the record of 119 days written by former Prime Minister Canning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC reported that Truss has announced his resignation and Downing Street will issue a formal statement at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Truss resigning, the ruling Conservative Party will once again elect its leader. Truss will remain prime minister until a successor is elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Britain's previous shortest-term prime minister was George Canning, who took office in 1827, and died of health problems after 119 days in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3.jpg\" title=\"Truss resigns after 45 days in office as British prime minister with shortest tenure\" class=\"swipebox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Truss resigns after 45 days in office as British prime minister with shortest tenure\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3-768x386.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Truss announced her resignation  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-en"],"modified_by":"Li, design","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiauniontimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}