Just 45 days after coming to office, UK Prime Minister Lizz Truss stepped down from office on Thursday, October 20, becoming the PM to have served the shortest term ever in the country. After news of the resignation broke, the beleaguered leader said she had spoken to King Charles III to notify him of her resignation and also met the 1922 Committee chair Sir Graham Brady, in charge of Tory leadership elections, who has said a new Tory leader should be in place by next Friday.