Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss, whose 45 days leading the country were remarkable for the record brevity, that a head of lettuce on a webcam outlasted her, and that Queen Elizabeth II died, lost her formerly safe seat Thursday to a Labour challenger by 640 votes, the Guardian reports.
Truss was not seen as in danger given her 26,000 vote win in 2019 and had held the seat since 2010. Locals in her Norfolk district told the Guardian they had seen little of her during the campaign, which tracks with the entitlement and arrogance that led her to blame the Deep State for her being tossed from the premiership for also now ex-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in 2022, with Truss writing a book titled Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons From the Only Conservative in the Room.