UK PM Liz Truss resigns

Liz Truss said on Thursday she was resigning as prime minister, brought down by her economic programme that sent shockwaves through the markets and divided her Conservative Party just six weeks after she was appointed.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss was expected to make a statement on her future imminently on Thursday, as her staff moved a lecturn into the street.

Truss has been under mounting pressure to quit, just six weeks into the job, after she launched an economic policy that triggered a bond market rout