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Liz Truss has resigned as the UK\u2019s prime minister after six weeks. Here\u2019s what you need to know about her if you don\u2019t regularly follow politics.<\/p>\n

She was the shortest serving UK prime minister<\/h2>\n

Liz Truss replaced Boris Johnson as leader and became PM on 6 September then resigned 45 days later. The previous record was set at 119 days by George Canning who died in office in 1827.<\/p>\n

She ran into problems very quickly<\/h2>\n

With her support, finance minster Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled \u00a345bn of tax cuts in her third week, in what they called a \u201cmini-budget\u201d. But it was widely blamed for causing huge economic problems. Almost all of it has now been reversed and Kwarteng was sacked as chancellor.<\/p>\n

Some of her own MPs started openly criticising her<\/h2>\n

Dozens of Tories called on her to step down and her Home Secretary Suella Braverman resigned. She had to hire former rivals Grant Shapps and Jeremy Hunt to plug the gaps in her top team.<\/p>\n

She said she couldn\u2019t deliver what she had promised<\/h2>\n

In her resignation speech outside Downing Street, she said: \u201cI recognise that I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.\u201d<\/p>\n

She beat former Chancellor Rishi Sunak to be PM<\/h2>\n

Only Conservative MPs and party members got to vote to make her leader. Sunak came ahead in the MPs vote but in the final vote from members more than 80,000 picked her instead of Sunak, making her the winner.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know who will replace her<\/h2>\n

There will be a leadership contest within the next week. She will stay on as leader until her replacement is announced.<\/p>\n

She was the last PM appointed by Queen Elizabeth II<\/h2>\n

The Queen appointed Liz Truss days before she died and her leadership began with a 10-day mourning period.<\/p>\n

She used to work as an economist<\/h2>\n

After university she worked for Shell and Cable & Wireless, and married accountant Hugh O\u2019Leary in 2000. They have two daughters. The family live in Thetford, Norfolk.<\/p>\n