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Who can last longer? Prime Minister Liz Truss or head of lettuce. This is the question asked by the British Daily Star. The European media in Brussels paid attention to this sarcastic proposal by the British newspaper, especially after British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced the resignation of Finance Minister Kwasi Quarting at a press conference on Friday. He was only allowed to hold this seat for 38 days.
Both have been under fire for some time now after announcing a major tax reform. The most controversial point, the tax cuts for high-income earners, has already been dropped after a flurry of criticism.
After all the criticism, Karting's position is no longer acceptable, according to Truss. With this resignation, the Prime Minister was hoping to buy time, and here it is. The British newspaper immediately wondered if the prime minister herself could still stay in office.
The British newspaper, "The Guardian", commented on the political chaos in Downing Street - the British Cabinet - after the dismissal of the Minister of Finance, Kwasi Quarting, and said that since Liz Terrace took office as prime minister only 39 days ago, her premiership is going backwards, especially with the harsh economic reality, Considering that she is now struggling for her political survival.
The newspaper pointed out that the last 24 hours have seen developments in the chaos, while Prime Minister Liz Terrace and her finance minister have insisted publicly that they are committed to a plan to not impose a corporate tax, officials have been privately briefed on the exact opposite.
 
 
Kwasi Quarting's midnight rush from Washington confirmed that the situation had reached a crisis point. As the sun rose over Westminster, rumors of his approaching termination had already spread. A Downing Street insider claimed that Truss already knew he had to become a "scapegoat" for the mini-budget debacle - telling reporters he wasn't going anywhere.
 
 
Despite Truss' hopes that Quarting's dismissal as Treasury would take some of the tension off her, or at least buy some valuable time to try to stabilize the Tories' rebellious ship, as his departure speech - and her response - showed, their radical plan to shred the economy to boost growth was largely an endeavour. subscriber.
 
 
Quarting stressed to the Prime Minister that the economic plan was expressing her vision as well, and indeed she replied that we "share the same vision."
 
The newspaper considered that despite the finger-pointing, Truss and Quarting have shared opinions for years.
Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain's Labor Party, has called an immediate general election regardless of whether the Conservatives oust Prime Minister Liz Truss, arguing that the Conservative government is "completely at the end of the road" and Labor is poised to take power.

In an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper, the Labor leader said Truss had pushed the economy "into a wall" while "destroying our institutions", and that changing the prime minister again without allowing the country to vote would not be acceptable.
 
 
However, Starmer said he told his shadow cabinet not to be complacent with the party's lead in the polls by more than 30 points, and that Labor would "not sit idly by" but fight for every vote.
 
 
He said people were "looking to Labor for answers to the next election" and that the party needed to keep working to win the competition, rather than assuming that government incompetence would cost the Conservatives a loss.
 
"My approach in this matter is to challenge the assumption that governments lose elections. I think the opponents should win them. So, we will not be complacent, we will not sit idly by. What I told the shadow government on Tuesday is that we should act on the basis that we are behind in the polls," he said. opinion at all times.
 
Responding to Liz Terrace's dismissal of her finance minister Kwasi Quarting, and herself at risk of being ousted after less than two months in the job, Starmer said: "A change of staff at the helm of the Conservative Party is not the change we need. We need a change of government."