Liz Truss's emotional drinks with husband and daughters in flat

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Liz Truss had drinks with her family and aides in the Downing Street flat after she announced her resignation, according to reports. Writing in The Sunday Times, Tim Shipman claimed the Prime Minister, who handed in her resignation after just 45 days in office, had drinks with a “dozen aides” and her husband and two daughters after a day that was described as a “political funeral”.

Mr Shipman said the group admired the “Lulu Lytle decor installed by Carrie Johnson” – wife of Boris Johnson who served as PM before Ms Truss.

One close aide told the journalist: “I have to say this is an absolute tragedy. Liz Truss should have been a great PM. The sadness the staff feel is akin to a loved one dying. ‘Haunted’ is all I can really say to explain how I feel.”

Liz Truss stepped aside for a speedy Conservative Party leadership election on Thursday, with the short-lived PM claiming she has no mandate to make the changes she has pursued.

She told viewers she met with the 1922 Committee to decide a way for the party to progress. The Tories now aim to find a new leader within the week.

Ms Truss said: “I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability.

“Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills.

“Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine threatens the security of our whole continent. And our country has been held back for too long by low economic growth.

“I was elected by the Conservative Party with a mandate to change this – we delivered on energy bills and on cutting national insurance.”

“And we set out a vision for a low-tax, high-growth economy that would take advantage of the freedoms of Brexit.

“I recognise though, given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.

“I have therefore spoken to His Majesty the King to notify him that I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party.

“This morning I met the chairman of the 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady. We have agreed that there will be a leadership election to be completed within the next week.”

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