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How the Daily Star proved Liz Truss couldn’t outlast a lettuce | UK politics | The New Statesman
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7:57Now PlayingLiz Truss is not only the shortest running Prime Minister of all time, she also couldn't outlast a lettuce.
Rachel Cunliffe interviews Daily Star deputy editor-in-chief Jon Livesey about how a lettuce livestream helped chronicle the downfall of Liz Truss’s calamitous time in office.
They talk about why it cut through to the public, what’s happening to the lettuce now, and which vegetable will come next.
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